B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2858

733 lybrightness mag 6.23B9IV

Also catalogued as HD 59059 · HIP 36340

10,653 K
temperature
6.23
apparent magnitude
142× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
733 years
at light speed from Earth
1.85×
as hot as the Sun
142×
the Sun's light output
-0.53
absolute magnitude
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HR 2858B-type
Sky regionGeminithis direction
StarHD 5960352 ly
StarHR 278058 ly
StarHR 296565 ly
StarPolluxstar
StarAlhenastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Gemini
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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Gemini

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.