B-type star · blue-white star
HD 37781
HD 37781 is a blue-white star in the constellation Pictor 503 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,752 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 503 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 26515
10,752 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
55.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
503 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
55.41×
the Sun's light output
0.49
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.