B-type star · blue-white star
HR 2424
HR 2424 is a blue-white star in the constellation Columba 510 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,103 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 123× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 510 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 47144 · HIP 31457
12,103 K
temperature
5.59
apparent magnitude
123× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
510 years
at light speed from Earth
2.10×
as hot as the Sun
123×
the Sun's light output
-0.38
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.