B-type star · blue-white star
HR 2202
HR 2202 is a blue-white star in the constellation Monoceros 574 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,231 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 91.03× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 574 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 42657 · HIP 29401
11,231 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
91.03× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9MNp...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
574 years
at light speed from Earth
1.95×
as hot as the Sun
91.03×
the Sun's light output
-0.05
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.