B-type star · blue-white star
HR 2726
HR 2726 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 909 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,390 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 284× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 909 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 55718 · HIP 34817
12,390 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
284× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
909 years
at light speed from Earth
2.15×
as hot as the Sun
284×
the Sun's light output
-1.28
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.