A-type star · white star
HR 2551
HR 2551 is a white star in the constellation Monoceros 203 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,658 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 203 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 50277 · HIP 33024
7,658 K
temperature
5.75
apparent magnitude
16.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
203 years
at light speed from Earth
1.33×
as hot as the Sun
16.95×
the Sun's light output
1.78
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.