B-type star · blue-white star
56 Eri
56 Eri is a blue-white star in the constellation Eridanus. Its surface is about 11,184 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42,461,956× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 5.78B2Ve
Also catalogued as HR 1508 · HD 30076 · HIP 22024
11,184 K
temperature
5.78
apparent magnitude
42,461,956× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2Ve
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
42,461,956×
the Sun's light output
-14.22
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.