B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3042

1,136 lybrightness mag 6.23B8/B9II

Also catalogued as HD 63655 · HIP 38184

11,216 K

temperature

6.23

apparent magnitude

341× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8/B9II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,136 years

at light speed from Earth

1.94×

as hot as the Sun

341×

the Sun's light output

-1.48

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3042B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

10 Pup →56 ly apart
HR 3047 →110 ly apart
HR 3051 →130 ly apart
HR 2921 →150 ly apart
HR 3174 →170 ly apart
HR 2867 →200 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 6.2To 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.