A-type star · white star

HR 2566

HR 2566 is a white star in the constellation Canis Major 414 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,520 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.66× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 414 years ago.

414 lybrightness mag 6.13A3III

Also catalogued as HD 50643 · HIP 33079

8,520 K

temperature

6.13

apparent magnitude

49.66× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

414 years

at light speed from Earth

1.48×

as hot as the Sun

49.66×

the Sun's light output

0.61

absolute magnitude

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HR 2566A-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

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Bright stars in Canis Major

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.