B-type star · blue-white star
Elkurud
Elkurud is a blue-white star in the constellation Columba 722 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,489 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 426× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 722 years ago.
Also catalogued as Theta Col · HR 2177 · HD 42167 · HIP 29034
11,489 K
temperature
5.00
apparent magnitude
426× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8:IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
722 years
at light speed from Earth
1.99×
as hot as the Sun
426×
the Sun's light output
-1.72
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.