B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2961

556 lybrightness mag 4.84B3V

Also catalogued as HD 61831 · HIP 37297

13,325 K

temperature

4.84

apparent magnitude

293× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

556 years

at light speed from Earth

2.31×

as hot as the Sun

293×

the Sun's light output

-1.32

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2961B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2945 →13 ly apart
HR 2963 →17 ly apart
HD 63291 →24 ly apart
HR 2875 →26 ly apart
HR 2981 →38 ly apart
HR 3022 →38 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 4.8To 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.