A-type star · white star
HR 2265
HR 2265 is a white star in the constellation Columba 202 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,667 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 202 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 43940 · HIP 29852
8,667 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
14.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
202 years
at light speed from Earth
1.50×
as hot as the Sun
14.85×
the Sun's light output
1.92
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.