B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2994

626 lybrightness mag 5.60B5V

Also catalogued as HD 62578 · HIP 37623

12,103 K

temperature

5.60

apparent magnitude

185× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

626 years

at light speed from Earth

2.10×

as hot as the Sun

185×

the Sun's light output

-0.82

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2994B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2895 →28 ly apart
HR 3001 →35 ly apart
HR 3092 →37 ly apart
HR 3022 →41 ly apart
HR 2981 →42 ly apart
HR 3084 →44 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 5.6To 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.