B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3116

1,094 lybrightness mag 5.08B2.5IV

Also catalogued as HD 65551 · HIP 38872

12,817 K

temperature

5.08

apparent magnitude

911× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2.5IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,094 years

at light speed from Earth

2.22×

as hot as the Sun

911×

the Sun's light output

-2.55

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3116B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2984 →75 ly apart
Gam2Vel →78 ly apart
HR 3234 →81 ly apart
Naos →82 ly apart
HR 3213 →85 ly apart
HR 3118 →92 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 5.1To 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.