B-type star · blue-white star

Epsilon Dor

Epsilon Dor is a blue-white star in the constellation Dorado 574 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,066 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 246× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 574 years ago.

574 lybrightness mag 5.10B6V

Also catalogued as HR 2064 · HD 39844 · HIP 27534

12,066 K

temperature

5.10

apparent magnitude

246× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B6V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

574 years

at light speed from Earth

2.09×

as hot as the Sun

246×

the Sun's light output

-1.13

absolute magnitude

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Epsilon DorB-type

Sky regionDoradothis direction

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Bright stars in Dorado

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Dorado

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.