B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1873

HR 1873 is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 1,013 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,692 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 268× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,013 years ago.

1,013 lybrightness mag 6.24B2.5V

Also catalogued as HD 36779 · HIP 26106

12,692 K
temperature
6.24
apparent magnitude
268× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,013 years
at light speed from Earth
2.20×
as hot as the Sun
268×
the Sun's light output
-1.22
absolute magnitude
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HR 1873B-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To 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.