B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2716

HR 2716 is a blue-white star in the constellation Canis Major 467 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,625 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 82.49× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 467 years ago.

467 lybrightness mag 5.84A0IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 55344 · HIP 34758

10,625 K

temperature

5.84

apparent magnitude

82.49× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

467 years

at light speed from Earth

1.84×

as hot as the Sun

82.49×

the Sun's light output

0.06

absolute magnitude

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HR 2716B-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Canis Major

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canis Major

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.