K-type star · orange

56 Ori

56 Ori is an orange in the constellation Orion 1,259 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,980 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,620× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,259 years ago.

1,259 lybrightness mag 4.76K2IIvar

Also catalogued as HR 2037 · HD 39400 · HIP 27750

3,980 K

temperature

4.76

apparent magnitude

1,620× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2IIvar

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,259 years

at light speed from Earth

0.69×

as hot as the Sun

1,620×

the Sun's light output

-3.17

absolute magnitude

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56 OriK-type

Sky regionOrionthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Orion

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.