B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2841

HR 2841 is a blue-white star in the constellation Canis Major 1,412 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,624 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 788× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,412 years ago.

1,412 lybrightness mag 5.79B5III

Also catalogued as HD 58612 · HIP 36024

11,624 K

temperature

5.79

apparent magnitude

788× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,412 years

at light speed from Earth

2.01×

as hot as the Sun

788×

the Sun's light output

-2.39

absolute magnitude

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HR 2841B-type

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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.