B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1957

794 lybrightness mag 6.46B9.5IIIp Si

Also catalogued as HD 37808 · HIP 26728

12,048 K

temperature

6.46

apparent magnitude

134× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5IIIp Si

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

794 years

at light speed from Earth

2.09×

as hot as the Sun

134×

the Sun's light output

-0.47

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1957B-type

Sky regionOrionthis direction

Nearest stars

3 Mon →72 ly apart
HD 34318 →95 ly apart
HR 1965 →99 ly apart
6Lam Lep →100 ly apart
HR 2000 →100 ly apart
HR 1826 →110 ly apart

Bright stars in Orion

Hatysa →mag 2.8
Tabit →mag 3.2
28Eta Ori →mag 3.4
Meissa →mag 3.4
20Tau Ori →mag 3.6
3Pi 4Ori →mag 3.7
8Pi 5Ori →mag 3.7
48Sig Ori →mag 3.8

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.5To 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.