B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1918

HR 1918 is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 1,331 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,831 K, about 2.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 562× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,331 years ago.

1,331 lybrightness mag 6.03B1Vvar

Also catalogued as HD 37303 · HIP 26427

13,831 K
temperature
6.03
apparent magnitude
562× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1Vvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,331 years
at light speed from Earth
2.40×
as hot as the Sun
562×
the Sun's light output
-2.02
absolute magnitude
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HR 1918B-type
Sky regionOrionthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.