B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2288

1,941 lybrightness mag 5.55B3V

Also catalogued as HD 44506 · HIP 30143

13,166 K

temperature

5.55

apparent magnitude

1,859× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,941 years

at light speed from Earth

2.28×

as hot as the Sun

1,859×

the Sun's light output

-3.32

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2288B-type

Sky regionColumbathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2501 →210 ly apart
HR 2397 →220 ly apart
Sig Col →330 ly apart
HR 2743 →440 ly apart
HR 2445 →440 ly apart
HR 2591 →450 ly apart

Bright stars in Columba

Phact →mag 2.6
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

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To 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.