A-type star · white star
Miaplacidus
Miaplacidus is a white star in the constellation Carina 113 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,328 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 225× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 1.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 113 years ago.
Also catalogued as Beta Car · HR 3685 · HD 80007 · HIP 45238
9,328 K
temperature
1.67
apparent magnitude
225× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
113 years
at light speed from Earth
1.62×
as hot as the Sun
225×
the Sun's light output
-1.03
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.