B-type star · blue-white star
HR 1826
HR 1826 is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 797 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,213 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 145× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 797 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 36058 · HIP 25667
10,213 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
145× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
797 years
at light speed from Earth
1.77×
as hot as the Sun
145×
the Sun's light output
-0.55
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.