A-type star · white star

HR 2836

HR 2836 is a white star in the constellation Canis Minor 260 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,246 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 260 years ago.

260 lybrightness mag 6.38A2IV

Also catalogued as HD 58552 · HIP 36123

9,246 K

temperature

6.38

apparent magnitude

15.52× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

260 years

at light speed from Earth

1.60×

as hot as the Sun

15.52×

the Sun's light output

1.87

absolute magnitude

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HR 2836A-type

Sky regionCanis Minorthis direction

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Bright stars in Canis Minor

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To 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.