F-type star · yellow-white star
Lambda CrB
Lambda CrB is a yellow-white star in the constellation Corona Borealis 136 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,147 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.13× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 136 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5936 · HD 142908 · HIP 78012 · Gliese GJ 9531
7,147 K
temperature
5.43
apparent magnitude
10.13× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
136 years
at light speed from Earth
1.24×
as hot as the Sun
10.13×
the Sun's light output
2.34
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.