B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2258

849 lybrightness mag 6.27B9IIIsp...

Also catalogued as HD 43819 · HIP 30019

11,473 K

temperature

6.27

apparent magnitude

183× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9IIIsp...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

849 years

at light speed from Earth

1.99×

as hot as the Sun

183×

the Sun's light output

-0.81

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2258B-type

Sky regionOrionthis direction

Nearest stars

68 Ori →47 ly apart
HR 2457 →98 ly apart
HR 2099 →110 ly apart
HR 2235 →110 ly apart
33 Gem →110 ly apart
HR 2116 →110 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.