B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3023

1,639 lybrightness mag 5.90B1/B2V

Also catalogued as HD 63271 · HIP 37995

13,121 K

temperature

5.90

apparent magnitude

960× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1/B2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,639 years

at light speed from Earth

2.27×

as hot as the Sun

960×

the Sun's light output

-2.61

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3023B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2928 →120 ly apart
HR 3183 →170 ly apart
Omi Pup →240 ly apart
HR 3194 →240 ly apart
HR 2902 →260 ly apart
27 CMa →270 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 5.9To 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.