B-type star · blue-white star
HD 87122
HD 87122 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 726 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,290 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 117× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 726 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 49092
10,290 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
117× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
726 years
at light speed from Earth
1.78×
as hot as the Sun
117×
the Sun's light output
-0.32
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.