A-type star · white star
49 Ori
49 Ori is a white star in the constellation Orion 145 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,667 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 145 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1937 · HD 37507 · HIP 26563 · Gliese GJ 9187
8,667 K
temperature
4.77
apparent magnitude
21.42× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
145 years
at light speed from Earth
1.50×
as hot as the Sun
21.42×
the Sun's light output
1.52
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.