B-type star · blue-white star

Mirzam

Mirzam is a blue-white star in the constellation Canis Major 493 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 14,633 K, about 2.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3,209× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 493 years ago.

493 lybrightness mag 1.98B1II/III

Also catalogued as Beta CMa · HR 2294 · HD 44743 · HIP 30324

14,633 K

temperature

1.98

apparent magnitude

3,209× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1II/III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

493 years

at light speed from Earth

2.54×

as hot as the Sun

3,209×

the Sun's light output

-3.92

absolute magnitude

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MirzamB-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Canis Major

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canis Major

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.