B-type star · blue-white star
Omega Ori
Omega Ori is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 1,382 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,539 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,477× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,382 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1934 · HD 37490 · HIP 26594
11,539 K
temperature
4.50
apparent magnitude
2,477× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3IIIe
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,382 years
at light speed from Earth
2.00×
as hot as the Sun
2,477×
the Sun's light output
-3.63
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.