B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1886

HR 1886 is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 2,696 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 14,300 K, about 2.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3,209× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,695 years ago.

2,696 lybrightness mag 5.67B1Vvar

Also catalogued as HD 36959 · HIP 26197

14,300 K
temperature
5.67
apparent magnitude
3,209× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1Vvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,695 years
at light speed from Earth
2.48×
as hot as the Sun
3,209×
the Sun's light output
-3.92
absolute magnitude
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HR 1886B-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.