Bellatrix
Orion’s other shoulder, across from Betelgeuse, a hot blue giant.
Tonight from
Rise, highest point and set are worked out on your device for the place above.
What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 1.64, the 28th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 252 light years
- Kind of star
- Blue-white giant, spectral type B2 III
- Light it gives out
- About 1,200 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Orion, where it is γ Orionis
- Catalogue number
- HIP 25336
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources