B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2710

HR 2710 is a blue-white star in the constellation Canis Minor 549 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,329 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 92.13× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 549 years ago.

549 lybrightness mag 6.07A1V

Also catalogued as HD 55111 · HIP 34768

10,329 K
temperature
6.07
apparent magnitude
92.13× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
549 years
at light speed from Earth
1.79×
as hot as the Sun
92.13×
the Sun's light output
-0.06
absolute magnitude
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HR 2710B-type
Sky regionCanis Minorthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Canis Minor

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.