B-type star · blue-white star

Imai

345 lybrightness mag 2.79B2IV

Also catalogued as Del Cru · HR 4656 · HD 106490 · HIP 59747

13,418 K

temperature

2.79

apparent magnitude

747× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

345 years

at light speed from Earth

2.32×

as hot as the Sun

747×

the Sun's light output

-2.33

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

ImaiB-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 104900 →8.8 ly apart
HR 4592 →17 ly apart
HR 4706 →19 ly apart
HR 4551 →23 ly apart
HR 4832 →30 ly apart
Zet Cru →35 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Gacrux →mag 1.6
Ginan →mag 3.6
Mu 1Cru →mag 4.0
Zet Cru →mag 4.1
Eta Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Lam Cru →mag 4.6
Iot Cru →mag 4.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crux

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.