B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1950

HR 1950 is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 1,365 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,442 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 496× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,365 years ago.

1,365 lybrightness mag 6.22B1.5V

Also catalogued as HD 37744 · HIP 26713

13,442 K
temperature
6.22
apparent magnitude
496× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,365 years
at light speed from Earth
2.33×
as hot as the Sun
496×
the Sun's light output
-1.89
absolute magnitude
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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.