B-type star · blue-white star

Furud

362 lybrightness mag 3.02B2.5V

Also catalogued as 1Zet CMa · HR 2282 · HD 44402 · HIP 30122

12,692 K

temperature

3.02

apparent magnitude

666× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

362 years

at light speed from Earth

2.20×

as hot as the Sun

666×

the Sun's light output

-2.21

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

FurudB-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2307 →22 ly apart
HR 2200 →39 ly apart
HR 2129 →40 ly apart
Lam Col →50 ly apart
HR 2316 →51 ly apart
HR 2411 →53 ly apart

Bright stars in Canis Major

Adhara →mag 1.5
Wezen →mag 1.8
Mirzam →mag 2.0
Aludra →mag 2.5
24Omi2CMa →mag 3.0
Nganurganity →mag 3.5
13Kap CMa →mag 3.5
16Omi1CMa →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.0To 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.