B-type star · blue-white star
HR 1576
HR 1576 is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 364 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,327 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 52.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 364 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 31373 · HIP 22913
11,327 K
temperature
5.79
apparent magnitude
52.29× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
364 years
at light speed from Earth
1.96×
as hot as the Sun
52.29×
the Sun's light output
0.55
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.