A-type star · white star

HR 2989

HR 2989 is a white star in the constellation Canis Minor 402 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,079 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 402 years ago.

402 lybrightness mag 6.46F0III

Also catalogued as HD 62437 · HIP 37705

8,079 K

temperature

6.46

apparent magnitude

34.51× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

402 years

at light speed from Earth

1.40×

as hot as the Sun

34.51×

the Sun's light output

1.00

absolute magnitude

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HR 2989A-type

Sky regionCanis Minorthis direction

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Bright stars in Canis Minor

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.5To 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.