B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2271

HR 2271 is a blue-white star in the constellation Canis Major 1,754 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,589 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,216× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,754 years ago.

1,754 lybrightness mag 5.79B3II/III

Also catalogued as HD 44081 · HIP 30011

12,589 K

temperature

5.79

apparent magnitude

1,216× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3II/III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,754 years

at light speed from Earth

2.18×

as hot as the Sun

1,216×

the Sun's light output

-2.86

absolute magnitude

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HR 2271B-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Canis Major

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To 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.