B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2244

HR 2244 is a blue-white star in the constellation Canis Major 408 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,216 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 136× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 408 years ago.

408 lybrightness mag 5.00B9V

Also catalogued as HD 43445 · HIP 29735

11,216 K

temperature

5.00

apparent magnitude

136× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

408 years

at light speed from Earth

1.94×

as hot as the Sun

136×

the Sun's light output

-0.48

absolute magnitude

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HR 2244B-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Canis Major

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canis Major

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.