B-type star · blue-white star

HD 90966

1,165 lybrightness mag 6.42B2/B3III:ne

Also catalogued as HIP 51265

10,639 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
300× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2/B3III:ne
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,165 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
300×
the Sun's light output
-1.34
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.4To 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.