B-type star · blue-white star

30 Eri

30 Eri is a blue-white star in the constellation Eridanus 586 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,407 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 180× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 586 years ago.

586 lybrightness mag 5.48B8+...

Also catalogued as HR 1202 · HD 24388 · HIP 18141

11,407 K
temperature
5.48
apparent magnitude
180× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
586 years
at light speed from Earth
1.98×
as hot as the Sun
180×
the Sun's light output
-0.79
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Eridanus

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.