K-type star · orange
12 Lib
12 Lib is an orange in the constellation Libra 417 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,058 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 111× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 417 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5548 · HD 131430 · HIP 72929
4,058 K
temperature
5.27
apparent magnitude
111× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
417 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
111×
the Sun's light output
-0.26
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.