B-type star · blue-white star
68 Ori
68 Ori is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 832 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,107 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 282× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 832 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2193 · HD 42509 · HIP 29433
11,107 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
282× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
832 years
at light speed from Earth
1.92×
as hot as the Sun
282×
the Sun's light output
-1.27
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.