B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2964

1,148 lybrightness mag 5.76B3III

Also catalogued as HD 61899 · HIP 37329

11,107 K

temperature

5.76

apparent magnitude

536× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,148 years

at light speed from Earth

1.92×

as hot as the Sun

536×

the Sun's light output

-1.97

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2964B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3017 →27 ly apart
HR 2911 →59 ly apart
HR 3035 →97 ly apart
Naos →120 ly apart
HR 2984 →130 ly apart
HR 3241 →140 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 5.8To 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.