A-type star · white star
HR 2163
HR 2163 is a white star in the constellation Lepus 460 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,391 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 113× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 460 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 41841 · HIP 28943
9,391 K
temperature
5.46
apparent magnitude
113× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
460 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
113×
the Sun's light output
-0.29
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.