B-type star · blue-white star
Algorab
Algorab is a blue-white star in the constellation Corvus 86.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,277 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 41.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 87 years ago.
Also catalogued as Delta Crv · HR 4757 · HD 108767 · HIP 60965
10,277 K
temperature
2.94
apparent magnitude
41.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
87 years
at light speed from Earth
1.78×
as hot as the Sun
41.19×
the Sun's light output
0.81
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.