A-type star · white star

HR 2592

HR 2592 is a white star in the constellation Carina 474 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,313 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 474 years ago.

474 lybrightness mag 6.41A3m...

Also catalogued as HD 51210 · HIP 33012

8,313 K
temperature
6.41
apparent magnitude
50.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3m...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
474 years
at light speed from Earth
1.44×
as hot as the Sun
50.21×
the Sun's light output
0.60
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Carina

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.