B-type star · blue-white star

Beta Cha

Beta Cha is a blue-white star in the constellation Chamaeleon 298 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,975 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 147× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 298 years ago.

298 lybrightness mag 4.24B5Vn

Also catalogued as HR 4674 · HD 106911 · HIP 60000

11,975 K

temperature

4.24

apparent magnitude

147× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

298 years

at light speed from Earth

2.07×

as hot as the Sun

147×

the Sun's light output

-0.57

absolute magnitude

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Beta ChaB-type

Sky regionChamaeleonthis direction

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Bright stars in Chamaeleon

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Chamaeleon

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.