B-type star · blue-white star
Psi¹ Ori
Psi¹ Ori is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 1,039 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,585 K, about 2.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 977× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,039 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1789 · HD 35439 · HIP 25302
13,585 K
temperature
4.89
apparent magnitude
977× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1V:pe
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,039 years
at light speed from Earth
2.35×
as hot as the Sun
977×
the Sun's light output
-2.63
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.