B-type star · blue-white star
Nu Ori
Nu Ori is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 516 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,775 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 372× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 516 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2159 · HD 41753 · HIP 29038
12,775 K
temperature
4.42
apparent magnitude
372× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
516 years
at light speed from Earth
2.21×
as hot as the Sun
372×
the Sun's light output
-1.58
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Nearest stars
Can you see it tonight?
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.