B-type star · blue-white star

The2Cru

854 lybrightness mag 4.72B2IV

Also catalogued as HR 4603 · HD 104841 · HIP 58867

11,263 K

temperature

4.72

apparent magnitude

773× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

854 years

at light speed from Earth

1.95×

as hot as the Sun

773×

the Sun's light output

-2.37

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

The2CruB-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4499 →56 ly apart
HD 105822 →81 ly apart
HD 108395 →84 ly apart
HD 97451 →130 ly apart
HR 4576 →130 ly apart
HD 95122 →140 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Gacrux →mag 1.6
Imai →mag 2.8
Ginan →mag 3.6
Mu 1Cru →mag 4.0
Zet Cru →mag 4.1
Eta Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Lam Cru →mag 4.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crux

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.