B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3944

2,013 lybrightness mag 6.30B1Ib

Also catalogued as HD 86606 · HIP 48715

10,882 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
1,002× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,013 years
at light speed from Earth
1.89×
as hot as the Sun
1,002×
the Sun's light output
-2.65
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Carina

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.