B-type star · blue-white star
Omega Car
Omega Car is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 342 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,153 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 462× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 342 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4037 · HD 89080 · HIP 50099
11,153 K
temperature
3.29
apparent magnitude
462× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
342 years
at light speed from Earth
1.93×
as hot as the Sun
462×
the Sun's light output
-1.81
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.