F-type star · yellow-white star
71 Ori
71 Ori is a yellow-white star in the constellation Orion 67.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,724 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 68 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2220 · HD 43042 · HIP 29650 · Gliese GJ 3390
6,724 K
temperature
5.20
apparent magnitude
3.14× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
68 years
at light speed from Earth
1.16×
as hot as the Sun
3.14×
the Sun's light output
3.61
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.