B-type star · blue-white star
HD 84046
HD 84046 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 701 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,311 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 111× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 701 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 47422
11,311 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
111× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8/B9III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
701 years
at light speed from Earth
1.96×
as hot as the Sun
111×
the Sun's light output
-0.26
absolute magnitude
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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.