B-type star · blue-white star
60 Ori
60 Ori is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 446 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,014 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 134× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 446 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2103 · HD 40446 · HIP 28296
10,014 K
temperature
5.21
apparent magnitude
134× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1Vs
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
446 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
134×
the Sun's light output
-0.47
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.