A-type star · white star
Cursa
Cursa is a white star in the constellation Eridanus 89.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,478 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.54× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 89 years ago.
Also catalogued as Beta Eri · HR 1666 · HD 33111 · HIP 23875 · Gliese GJ 9175
8,478 K
temperature
2.78
apparent magnitude
50.54× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
89 years
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
50.54×
the Sun's light output
0.59
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.