Mintaka

Western belt star of Orion, an eclipsing binary on the celestial equator. Its dips in light helped early astronomers study close pairs. It is one of Orion's belt stars.

Wikipedia

Gaia has no usable parallax for this star (common for bright multiples). Distance uses the Hipparcos parallax instead.

ID
3220756843825383936
Distance
212.31 pc · 692.5 ly
Parallax
4.71 mas (Hipparcos)
Magnitude (G)
2.25
Color (BP-RP)
-
Radius
unknown
RA · Dec
83.00° · -0.30°