B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2674

HR 2674 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 493 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,011 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 126× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 493 years ago.

493 lybrightness mag 5.50B9IV

Also catalogued as HD 53921 · HIP 34000

12,011 K
temperature
5.50
apparent magnitude
126× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
493 years
at light speed from Earth
2.08×
as hot as the Sun
126×
the Sun's light output
-0.40
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook 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.