B-type star · blue-white star
62 Eri
62 Eri is a blue-white star in the constellation Eridanus 741 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,975 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 284× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 741 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1582 · HD 31512 · HIP 22958
11,975 K
temperature
5.50
apparent magnitude
284× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
741 years
at light speed from Earth
2.07×
as hot as the Sun
284×
the Sun's light output
-1.28
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.