B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2841

1,412 lybrightness mag 5.79B5III

Also catalogued as HD 58612 · HIP 36024

11,624 K

temperature

5.79

apparent magnitude

788× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,412 years

at light speed from Earth

2.01×

as hot as the Sun

788×

the Sun's light output

-2.39

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2841B-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2764 →69 ly apart
HR 2733 →88 ly apart
Omi Pup →130 ly apart
HR 2786 →160 ly apart
HR 2855 →170 ly apart
HR 2881 →170 ly apart

Bright stars in Canis Major

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

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To 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.