B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2984

1,144 lybrightness mag 6.41B7IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 62318 · HIP 37461

10,163 K

temperature

6.41

apparent magnitude

293× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,144 years

at light speed from Earth

1.76×

as hot as the Sun

293×

the Sun's light output

-1.32

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2984B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3116 →75 ly apart
Gam2Vel →110 ly apart
HR 3213 →120 ly apart
HR 3250 →130 ly apart
HR 2964 →130 ly apart
HR 3017 →130 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.