B-type star · blue-white star
Upsilon Ori
Upsilon Ori is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 2,861 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 15,260 K, about 2.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9,506× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,861 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1855 · HD 36512 · HIP 25923
15,260 K
temperature
4.62
apparent magnitude
9,506× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,861 years
at light speed from Earth
2.64×
as hot as the Sun
9,506×
the Sun's light output
-5.09
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.