B-type star · blue-white star
HR 1761
HR 1761 is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 916 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,391 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 174× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 916 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 34959 · HIP 25011
11,391 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
174× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5Vp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
916 years
at light speed from Earth
1.97×
as hot as the Sun
174×
the Sun's light output
-0.75
absolute magnitude
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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.