A-type star · white star

HR 1940

HR 1940 is a white star in the constellation Orion 139 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,500 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 139 years ago.

139 lybrightness mag 5.99A8Vs

Also catalogued as HD 37594 · HIP 26624

7,500 K
temperature
5.99
apparent magnitude
6.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8Vs
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
139 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
6.34×
the Sun's light output
2.84
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.