A-type star · white star
HR 2672
HR 2672 is a white star in the constellation Puppis 198 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,658 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 198 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 53811 · HIP 34059
8,658 K
temperature
4.92
apparent magnitude
34.39× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
198 years
at light speed from Earth
1.50×
as hot as the Sun
34.39×
the Sun's light output
1.01
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.