Star FU Orionis north

Binary star FU Orionis north is located 1329 light years away from the Sun. It consists of a yellow star and a orange star. For now, there are no known exoplanets in this star system.

FU Orionis north

Yellow star

Location

Right ascension: 5h 45m 22.371s

Declination: 9° 4' 12.251'' (equatorial region)

Parallax: 2.454

Sun distance: 1329.206 ly | 407.5 pc

Basic characteristic

Mass: 60 % M Sun

Photometry

K
2.1

H
1.6

J
1.2

Grp
0.8

I
0.8

G
0.6

V
0.5

Gbp
0.5

B
0.4

U
0.3

Absolute stellar magnitude in different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum from infrared (K band) to ultraviolet (U band).

FU Orionis south

Orange star

Spectral class: K5

Basic characteristic

Mass: 120 % M Sun

Size: 110 % R Sun (estimate)

Temperature: 4350 K | 0.75 T Sun

FU Orionis north system structure

	FU Orionis north
	FU Orionis south

More about FU Orionis north

       FU Orionis north can be found in northern celestial hemisphere, you cannot see it with naked eye, but you can observe this star with basic telescope. The star is easily observable from Northern America, Europe and Asia.

Other designations of this star
FU Ori, BD+09 5427

External sources

FU Orionis disk outburst: evidence for a gravitational instability scenario triggered in a magnetically dead zone

Scientific study, Accepted: 26. 04. 2023

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