B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1868

HR 1868 is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 1,469 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,011 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,268× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,469 years ago.

1,469 lybrightness mag 5.36B1V

Also catalogued as HD 36695 · HIP 26063

13,011 K
temperature
5.36
apparent magnitude
1,268× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,469 years
at light speed from Earth
2.25×
as hot as the Sun
1,268×
the Sun's light output
-2.91
absolute magnitude
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HR 1868B-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook 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.