F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 2287
HR 2287 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Orion 228 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,343 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 228 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 44497 · HIP 30318
7,343 K
temperature
6.00
apparent magnitude
16.90× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
228 years
at light speed from Earth
1.27×
as hot as the Sun
16.90×
the Sun's light output
1.78
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.