B-type star · blue-white star
11 Lyn
11 Lyn is a blue-white star in the constellation Lynx 332 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,051 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.44× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 332 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2402 · HD 46590 · HIP 31665
10,051 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
40.44× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
332 years
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
40.44×
the Sun's light output
0.83
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.