B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2774

HR 2774 is a blue-white star in the constellation Canis Major 968 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,549 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 202× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 968 years ago.

968 lybrightness mag 6.45B5Vn

Also catalogued as HD 56876 · HIP 35326

12,549 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
202× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
968 years
at light speed from Earth
2.17×
as hot as the Sun
202×
the Sun's light output
-0.91
absolute magnitude
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HR 2774B-type
Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction
StarOmega CMa58 ly
StarHR 286371 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.