Star
Alnitak
Alnitak is a blue star 736 light-years away, seen as it was 736 years ago, shining 8 937 times as bright as the Sun.
The brightest class O star in the night sky, at the eastern end of Orion's Belt. The system is bathed in the nebulosity of IC 434.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 736 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 1.74
- Spectral type
- O9.5Ib SB
- Catalogue
- HIP 26727
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.