B-type star · blue-white star
11 CMa
Also catalogued as HR 2504 · HD 49229 · HIP 32492
10,435 K
temperature
5.28
apparent magnitude
400× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8/B9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
795 years
at light speed from Earth
1.81×
as hot as the Sun
400×
the Sun's light output
-1.66
absolute magnitude
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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.