B-type star · blue-white star

Psi² Ori

Psi² Ori is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 1,136 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,561 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,543× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,136 years ago.

1,136 lybrightness mag 4.59B2IV

Also catalogued as HR 1811 · HD 35715 · HIP 25473

13,561 K

temperature

4.59

apparent magnitude

1,543× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,136 years

at light speed from Earth

2.35×

as hot as the Sun

1,543×

the Sun's light output

-3.12

absolute magnitude

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Psi² OriB-type

Sky regionOrionthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Orion

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.