B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2328

HR 2328 is a blue-white star in the constellation Monoceros 246 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,956 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.28× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 246 years ago.

246 lybrightness mag 6.35A0Vn

Also catalogued as HD 45380 · HIP 30675

10,956 K

temperature

6.35

apparent magnitude

14.28× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

246 years

at light speed from Earth

1.90×

as hot as the Sun

14.28×

the Sun's light output

1.96

absolute magnitude

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HR 2328B-type

Sky regionMonocerosthis direction

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Bright stars in Monoceros

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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Monoceros

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.