B-type star · blue-white star
12 CMa
Also catalogued as HR 2509 · HD 49333 · HIP 32504
12,671 K
temperature
6.07
apparent magnitude
190× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
788 years
at light speed from Earth
2.20×
as hot as the Sun
190×
the Sun's light output
-0.84
absolute magnitude
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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.