B-type star · blue-white star
HR 2195
HR 2195 is a blue-white star in the constellation Monoceros 556 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,002 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 87.66× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 556 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 42536 · HIP 29323
10,002 K
temperature
6.15
apparent magnitude
87.66× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
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spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
556 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
87.66×
the Sun's light output
-0.01
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.