B-type star · blue-white star
Pi² Ori
Pi² Ori is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 224 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,002 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 75.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 224 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1544 · HD 30739 · HIP 22509
10,002 K
temperature
4.35
apparent magnitude
75.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
224 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
75.09×
the Sun's light output
0.16
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.