B-type star · blue-white star

Muliphein

Muliphein is a blue-white star in the constellation Canis Major 442 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,779 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 363× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 442 years ago.

442 lybrightness mag 4.11B8II

Also catalogued as Gamma CMa · HR 2657 · HD 53244 · HIP 34045

11,779 K

temperature

4.11

apparent magnitude

363× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

442 years

at light speed from Earth

2.04×

as hot as the Sun

363×

the Sun's light output

-1.55

absolute magnitude

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MulipheinB-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

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Bright stars in Canis Major

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.1To 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.