A-type star · white star
12 Lyn
12 Lyn is a white star in the constellation Lynx 215 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,185 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 215 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2470 · HD 48250 · HIP 32438
9,185 K
temperature
4.86
apparent magnitude
42.93× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
215 years
at light speed from Earth
1.59×
as hot as the Sun
42.93×
the Sun's light output
0.77
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.