B-type star · blue-white star
HR 1574
HR 1574 is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 725 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,849 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 174× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 725 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 31331 · HIP 22840
11,849 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
174× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
725 years
at light speed from Earth
2.05×
as hot as the Sun
174×
the Sun's light output
-0.75
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.