A-type star · white star
52 Ori
52 Ori is a white star in the constellation Orion 538 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,909 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 187× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 538 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1999 · HD 38710 · HIP 27386
7,909 K
temperature
5.26
apparent magnitude
187× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
538 years
at light speed from Earth
1.37×
as hot as the Sun
187×
the Sun's light output
-0.83
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.