B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2940

463 lybrightness mag 5.69B9V

Also catalogued as HD 61391 · HIP 37043

10,612 K

temperature

5.69

apparent magnitude

93.07× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

463 years

at light speed from Earth

1.84×

as hot as the Sun

93.07×

the Sun's light output

-0.07

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2940B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2761 →34 ly apart
HR 3133 →36 ly apart
HR 2815 →38 ly apart
Chi Car →43 ly apart
HR 2892 →48 ly apart
HR 2767 →60 ly apart

Bright stars in Puppis

Naos →mag 2.2
Pi Pup →mag 2.7
Tureis →mag 2.8
Tau Pup →mag 2.9
Pipit →mag 3.2
Sig Pup →mag 3.3
Azmidi →mag 3.3
3 Pup →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Puppis

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.