B-type star · blue-white star

Furud

Furud is a blue-white star in the constellation Canis Major 362 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,692 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 666× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 362 years ago.

362 lybrightness mag 3.02B2.5V

Also catalogued as Zeta CMa · HR 2282 · HD 44402 · HIP 30122

12,692 K

temperature

3.02

apparent magnitude

666× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

362 years

at light speed from Earth

2.20×

as hot as the Sun

666×

the Sun's light output

-2.21

absolute magnitude

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FurudB-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

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Bright stars in Canis Major

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canis Major

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.