B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1886

2,696 lybrightness mag 5.67B1Vvar

Also catalogued as HD 36959 · HIP 26197

14,300 K

temperature

5.67

apparent magnitude

3,209× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1Vvar

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,695 years

at light speed from Earth

2.48×

as hot as the Sun

3,209×

the Sun's light output

-3.92

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1886B-type

Sky regionOrionthis direction

Nearest stars

36Ups Ori →180 ly apart
HR 1840 →330 ly apart
Hatysa →370 ly apart
HR 1848 →370 ly apart
Arneb →690 ly apart
55 Eri →780 ly apart

Bright stars in Orion

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

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To 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.