B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1952

HR 1952 is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 899 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,513 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 692× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 898 years ago.

899 lybrightness mag 4.95B2IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 37756 · HIP 26736

13,513 K
temperature
4.95
apparent magnitude
692× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
898 years
at light speed from Earth
2.34×
as hot as the Sun
692×
the Sun's light output
-2.25
absolute magnitude
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HR 1952B-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To 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.