B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2522

HR 2522 is a blue-white star in the constellation Canis Major 529 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,506 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 160× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 529 years ago.

529 lybrightness mag 5.39B7IV

Also catalogued as HD 49662 · HIP 32677

11,506 K
temperature
5.39
apparent magnitude
160× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
529 years
at light speed from Earth
1.99×
as hot as the Sun
160×
the Sun's light output
-0.66
absolute magnitude
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HR 2522B-type
Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction
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Bright stars in Canis Major
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To 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.