B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2619

HR 2619 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 590 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,569 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 267× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 590 years ago.

590 lybrightness mag 5.07B4IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 52092 · HIP 33558

12,569 K

temperature

5.07

apparent magnitude

267× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

590 years

at light speed from Earth

2.18×

as hot as the Sun

267×

the Sun's light output

-1.22

absolute magnitude

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HR 2619B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

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Bright stars in Puppis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Puppis

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.