A-type star · white star
Beta Crt
Beta Crt is a white star in the constellation Crater 340 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,824 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 156× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 340 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4343 · HD 97277 · HIP 54682 · Gliese Gl 416.1
9,824 K
temperature
4.46
apparent magnitude
156× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
340 years
at light speed from Earth
1.70×
as hot as the Sun
156×
the Sun's light output
-0.63
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.