B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2182

HR 2182 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lepus 498 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,653 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 498 years ago.

498 lybrightness mag 6.36B9Vn...

Also catalogued as HD 42327 · HIP 29178

10,653 K

temperature

6.36

apparent magnitude

58.02× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9Vn...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

498 years

at light speed from Earth

1.85×

as hot as the Sun

58.02×

the Sun's light output

0.44

absolute magnitude

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HR 2182B-type

Sky regionLepusthis direction

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Bright stars in Lepus

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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Lepus

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.