A-type star · white star
59 Ori
59 Ori is a white star in the constellation Orion 364 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,989 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 364 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2100 · HD 40372 · HIP 28271
7,989 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
47.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5me del Del
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
364 years
at light speed from Earth
1.38×
as hot as the Sun
47.91×
the Sun's light output
0.65
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.