B-type star · blue-white star

Pi⁵ Ori

Pi⁵ Ori is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 1,342 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,099 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4,839× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,342 years ago.

1,342 lybrightness mag 3.71B2III SB

Also catalogued as HR 1567 · HD 31237 · HIP 22797

13,099 K
temperature
3.71
apparent magnitude
4,839× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2III SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,342 years
at light speed from Earth
2.27×
as hot as the Sun
4,839×
the Sun's light output
-4.36
absolute magnitude
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Pi⁵ OriB-type
Sky regionOrionthis direction
StarHR 1648130 ly
StarHR 1820200 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Orion

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.