HD 79447

HD 79447 is a single star in the southern constellation of Carina. It has the Bayer designation "i Carinae", while "HD 79447" is the identifier from the "Henry Draper catalogue". This star has a blue-white hue and is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +3.96. It is located at a distance of approximately 540 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and has an absolute magnitude of −2.14. The star drifting further away with a radial velocity of +18 km/s. It is a candidate member of the Lower Centaurus-Crux group of the Sco OB2 association.
This object is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B3V. A surface magnetic field has been detected with a strength on the order of . It has an estimated age of around 39 million years with no measured spin rate. The star has about 5.6 times the radius of the Sun and 7 times the Sun's mass. It is radiating over two thousand times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 18,900 K.