B-type star · blue-white star
HD 24188
HD 24188 is a blue-white star in the constellation Hydrus 467 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,975 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.03× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 467 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 17543
11,975 K
temperature
6.26
apparent magnitude
56.03× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
467 years
at light speed from Earth
2.07×
as hot as the Sun
56.03×
the Sun's light output
0.48
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.