B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1911

HR 1911 is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 1,538 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,881 K, about 2.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,007× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,538 years ago.

1,538 lybrightness mag 5.71B1V...

Also catalogued as HD 37209 · HIP 26345

13,881 K
temperature
5.71
apparent magnitude
1,007× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1V...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,538 years
at light speed from Earth
2.40×
as hot as the Sun
1,007×
the Sun's light output
-2.66
absolute magnitude
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HR 1911B-type
Sky regionOrionthis direction
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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.