A-type star · white star

HR 2214

HR 2214 is a white star in the constellation Orion 529 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,774 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 104× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 529 years ago.

529 lybrightness mag 5.86A6m

Also catalogued as HD 42954 · HIP 29616

7,774 K

temperature

5.86

apparent magnitude

104× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A6m

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

529 years

at light speed from Earth

1.35×

as hot as the Sun

104×

the Sun's light output

-0.19

absolute magnitude

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HR 2214A-type

Sky regionOrionthis direction

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Bright stars in Orion

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To 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.