F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 2548
HR 2548 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Puppis 82.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,576 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 82 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 50223 · HIP 32765 · Gliese Gl 249.1
6,576 K
temperature
5.14
apparent magnitude
4.88× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
82 years
at light speed from Earth
1.14×
as hot as the Sun
4.88×
the Sun's light output
3.13
absolute magnitude
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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.