B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2380

HR 2380 is a blue-white star in the constellation Canis Major 1,231 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,610 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 532× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,231 years ago.

1,231 lybrightness mag 5.92B3IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 46189 · HIP 31037

12,610 K

temperature

5.92

apparent magnitude

532× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,231 years

at light speed from Earth

2.18×

as hot as the Sun

532×

the Sun's light output

-1.96

absolute magnitude

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HR 2380B-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

StarHR 2166180 ly

StarNganurganity180 ly

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To 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.