B-type star · blue-white star
69 Ori
69 Ori is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 529 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,469 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 240× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 529 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2198 · HD 42545 · HIP 29434
12,469 K
temperature
4.95
apparent magnitude
240× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
529 years
at light speed from Earth
2.16×
as hot as the Sun
240×
the Sun's light output
-1.10
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.