B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1759

HR 1759 is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 919 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,752 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 190× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 919 years ago.

919 lybrightness mag 6.40B8III

Also catalogued as HD 34880 · HIP 24925

10,752 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
190× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
919 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
190×
the Sun's light output
-0.85
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.