B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2222

HR 2222 is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 1,195 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 14,381 K, about 2.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 505× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,195 years ago.

1,195 lybrightness mag 5.91B1V

Also catalogued as HD 43112 · HIP 29678

14,381 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
505× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,195 years
at light speed from Earth
2.49×
as hot as the Sun
505×
the Sun's light output
-1.91
absolute magnitude
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HR 2222B-type
Sky regionOrionthis direction
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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.