A-type star · white star

HR 2914

HR 2914 is a white star in the constellation Lynx 254 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,004 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 254 years ago.

254 lybrightness mag 5.93A5m

Also catalogued as HD 60652 · HIP 37140

8,004 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
22.43× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
254 years
at light speed from Earth
1.39×
as hot as the Sun
22.43×
the Sun's light output
1.47
absolute magnitude
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HR 2914A-type
Sky regionLynxthis direction
Star21 Lyn21 ly
Star27 Lyn25 ly
StarHR 289434 ly
StarAlpha Lynstar
Star38 Lynstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Lynx
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.