B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3157

1,348 lybrightness mag 6.12B2IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 66546 · HIP 39225

10,709 K

temperature

6.12

apparent magnitude

530× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,348 years

at light speed from Earth

1.86×

as hot as the Sun

530×

the Sun's light output

-1.96

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3157B-type

Sky regionCarinathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3088 →32 ly apart
HR 3006 →140 ly apart
HR 3120 →150 ly apart
HD 67621 →170 ly apart
HR 3100 →180 ly apart
HR 3244 →180 ly apart

Bright stars in Carina

Miaplacidus →mag 1.7
Avior →mag 1.9
Aspidiske →mag 2.2
The Car →mag 2.7
Ups Car →mag 2.9
Ome Car →mag 3.3
Chi Car →mag 3.5
Eta Car →mag 6.2

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Carina

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.