A-type star · white star
6 Ori
6 Ori is a white star in the constellation Orion 228 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,830 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 228 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1569 · HD 31283 · HIP 22833
8,830 K
temperature
5.18
apparent magnitude
36.14× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
228 years
at light speed from Earth
1.53×
as hot as the Sun
36.14×
the Sun's light output
0.95
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.