Star profile
56 Orionis
Highly luminous starWhat is 56 Orionis
56 Orionis burns more than 1,250 light-years away, set on the eastern flank of the hunter, not far from the belt. It is a luminous K-type giant that has exhausted its core hydrogen and swelled into an orange sun, hundreds of times brighter than ours. The light reaching the eye tonight left its surface long before the first ships ever circled the Earth.
Where it is and when to see it
56 Orionis lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is December: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 56 Orionis
- Constellation
- Orion
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.76
- Distance
- 1259.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 88.110° · Dec 1.855°
- Catalogue
- HIP 27750 · HD 39400
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Other stars in Orion
Orion has 128 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- RigelBeta Orionis0.18
- BetelgeuseAlpha Orionis0.45
- BellatrixGamma Orionis1.64
- Omicron 1 Orionis4.71
- 31 Orionis4.71
- 22 Orionis4.72
- 49 Orionis4.77
- HIP 261994.78