A-type star · white star

HR 2488

HR 2488 is a white star in the constellation Puppis 442 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,740 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.31× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 442 years ago.

442 lybrightness mag 6.30A8:+...

Also catalogued as HD 48797 · HIP 32208

7,740 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
48.31× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8:+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
442 years
at light speed from Earth
1.34×
as hot as the Sun
48.31×
the Sun's light output
0.64
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Puppis

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.