B-type star · blue-white star

Meissa

1,098 lybrightness mag 3.39O...

Also catalogued as 39Lam Ori · HR 1879 · HD 36861 · HIP 26207

12,692 K

temperature

3.39

apparent magnitude

4,349× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

O...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,098 years

at light speed from Earth

2.20×

as hot as the Sun

4,349×

the Sun's light output

-4.25

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

MeissaB-type

Sky regionOrionthis direction

Nearest stars

37Phi1Ori →14 ly apart
HR 1883 →23 ly apart
HR 1913 →34 ly apart
33 Ori →140 ly apart
30Psi2Ori →140 ly apart
25Psi1Ori →170 ly apart

Bright stars in Orion

Hatysa →mag 2.8
Tabit →mag 3.2
28Eta Ori →mag 3.4
20Tau Ori →mag 3.6
3Pi 4Ori →mag 3.7
8Pi 5Ori →mag 3.7
48Sig Ori →mag 3.8
9Omi2Ori →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.4To 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.