A-type star · white star

HR 2498

HR 2498 is a white star in the constellation Canis Major 424 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,277 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 112× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 424 years ago.

424 lybrightness mag 5.30A1IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 49048 · HIP 32411

9,277 K

temperature

5.30

apparent magnitude

112× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

424 years

at light speed from Earth

1.61×

as hot as the Sun

112×

the Sun's light output

-0.27

absolute magnitude

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HR 2498A-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

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Bright stars in Canis Major

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To 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.