B-type star · blue-white star
Phi¹ Ori
Phi¹ Ori is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 1,087 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,630 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,697× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,087 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1876 · HD 36822 · HIP 26176
12,630 K
temperature
4.39
apparent magnitude
1,697× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B0IV...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,087 years
at light speed from Earth
2.19×
as hot as the Sun
1,697×
the Sun's light output
-3.22
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.