B-type star · blue-white star

Phact

261 lybrightness mag 2.65B7IV

Also catalogued as Alp Col · HR 1956 · HD 37795 · HIP 26634

11,920 K

temperature

2.65

apparent magnitude

487× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

261 years

at light speed from Earth

2.07×

as hot as the Sun

487×

the Sun's light output

-1.87

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

PhactB-type

Sky regionColumbathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 1881 →8.7 ly apart
Eps Col →10 ly apart
HR 2160 →27 ly apart
HR 1835 →31 ly apart
HR 2164 →37 ly apart
HR 1909 →41 ly apart

Bright stars in Columba

Wazn →mag 3.1
Del Col →mag 3.9
Eps Col →mag 3.9
Eta Col →mag 4.0
Gam Col →mag 4.4
Kap Col →mag 4.4
Omi Col →mag 4.8
Lam Col →mag 4.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Columba

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.