A-type star · white star
HR 2262
HR 2262 is a white star in the constellation Columba 402 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,461 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 52.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 402 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 43847 · HIP 29808
8,461 K
temperature
6.00
apparent magnitude
52.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
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spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
402 years
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
52.72×
the Sun's light output
0.55
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.