B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2844

HR 2844 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lynx 499 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,440 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 107× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 499 years ago.

499 lybrightness mag 5.70B9MNp...

Also catalogued as HD 58661 · HIP 36348

11,440 K
temperature
5.70
apparent magnitude
107× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9MNp...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
499 years
at light speed from Earth
1.98×
as hot as the Sun
107×
the Sun's light output
-0.23
absolute magnitude
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HR 2844B-type
Sky regionLynxthis direction
StarHR 290355 ly
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lynx

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.