B-type star · blue-white star
HR 2370
HR 2370 is a blue-white star in the constellation Monoceros 988 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,849 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 272× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 988 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 45995 · HIP 31066
11,849 K
temperature
6.17
apparent magnitude
272× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2V:nne
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
988 years
at light speed from Earth
2.05×
as hot as the Sun
272×
the Sun's light output
-1.24
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.