B-type star · blue-white star
Meissa
Meissa is a blue-white star in the constellation Orion 1,098 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,692 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4,349× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,098 years ago.
Also catalogued as Lambda 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
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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.