A-type star · white star

Chi² Ori

Chi² Ori is a white star in the constellation Orion 1,802 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,894 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3,705× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,802 years ago.

1,802 lybrightness mag 4.64B2Iavar

Also catalogued as HR 2135 · HD 41117 · HIP 28716

7,894 K
temperature
4.64
apparent magnitude
3,705× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2Iavar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,802 years
at light speed from Earth
1.37×
as hot as the Sun
3,705×
the Sun's light output
-4.07
absolute magnitude
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Chi² OriA-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.6To 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.