K-type star · orange
29 Ori
29 Ori is an orange in the constellation Orion 157 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,884 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 157 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1784 · HD 35369 · HIP 25247
4,884 K
temperature
4.13
apparent magnitude
45.16× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
157 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
45.16×
the Sun's light output
0.71
absolute magnitude
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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.