B-type star · blue-white star
Chi Car
Chi Car is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 455 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,055 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 700× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 455 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3117 · HD 65575 · HIP 38827
13,055 K
temperature
3.46
apparent magnitude
700× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3IVp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
455 years
at light speed from Earth
2.26×
as hot as the Sun
700×
the Sun's light output
-2.26
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.