B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3143

brightness mag 6.37B2IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 66006 · HIP 39038

11,391 K

temperature

6.37

apparent magnitude

24,660,393× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

–

at light speed from Earth

1.97×

as hot as the Sun

24,660,393×

the Sun's light output

-13.63

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3143B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3142 →26 ly apart
HR 3179 →18,000 ly apart
HR 3056 →38,000 ly apart
HD 68763 →39,000 ly apart
HR 3462 →41,000 ly apart
HR 3226 →41,000 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.