Furud

E506487

Furud is a relatively bright main-sequence star in the constellation Canis Major, visible to the naked eye in the night sky.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Furud canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf main-sequence star
star
belongsToMilkyWayGalaxy true
hasAbsoluteMagnitudeV about -3.5
hasAge_Myr tens of millions of years
hasApparentMagnitude 3.0
hasBayerDesignation Zeta Canis Majoris
hasColorIndexBMinusV -0.21
hasConstellation Canis Major
hasDeclination -30° 03′ 49″
hasDistanceFromEarth_ly ~336
hasDistanceFromEarth_pc ~103
hasEffectiveTemperature_K ~18,000
hasEquinox J2000.0
hasFlamsteedDesignation 10 Canis Majoris
hasGalacticPopulation thin disk
hasHDDesignation HD 54662
hasHIPDesignation HIP 34444
hasHRDesignation HR 2593
hasLuminosity_solar ~3,000
hasLuminosityClass V
hasMass_solar ~7
hasMetallicity_FeH near-solar
hasParallax_mas ~9.7
hasProperName Furud
hasRadialVelocity_kmPerSec ~34
hasRadius_solar ~3.9
hasRightAscension 06h 20m 18s
hasRotationalVelocity_kmPerSec ~30
hasSpectralClass B-type
hasSpectralType B2.5V
hasTraditionalNameMeaning the solitary ones
hasTraditionalNameOriginLanguage Arabic
hasVariableType none known
isCataloguedIn Bright Star Catalogue
Henry Draper Catalogue
Hipparcos Catalogue
isHotBlueStar true
isInConstellation Canis Major
isLocatedInSouthernCelestialHemisphere true
isPartOf Canis Major OB association (approximate region)
isRelativelyBrightInNightSky true
isSingleStar true
isVisibleToNakedEye true
orbitsGalacticCenter true
willEndAs massive star remnant

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.