A-type star · white star
Pi¹ Ori
Pi¹ Ori is a white star in the constellation Orion 116 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,175 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 116 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1570 · HD 31295 · HIP 22845
9,175 K
temperature
4.64
apparent magnitude
15.43× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
116 years
at light speed from Earth
1.59×
as hot as the Sun
15.43×
the Sun's light output
1.88
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.