B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2683

HR 2683 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 301 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,543 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 65.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 301 years ago.

301 lybrightness mag 5.14A0p:

Also catalogued as HD 54118 · HIP 34105

10,543 K
temperature
5.14
apparent magnitude
65.16× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0p:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
301 years
at light speed from Earth
1.83×
as hot as the Sun
65.16×
the Sun's light output
0.32
absolute magnitude
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HR 2683B-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
StarHR 26388.2 ly
StarHR 263414 ly
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Bright stars in Carina
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To 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.