K-type star · orange

13 Lac

13 Lac is an orange in the constellation Lacerta 257 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,841 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 257 years ago.

257 lybrightness mag 5.11K0III

Also catalogued as HR 8656 · HD 215373 · HIP 112242

4,841 K
temperature
5.11
apparent magnitude
48.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
257 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
48.71×
the Sun's light output
0.63
absolute magnitude
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13 LacK-type
Sky regionLacertathis direction
StarHR 848928 ly
StarHR 848730 ly
StarHR 885731 ly
StarStelliostar
Star1 Lacstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Lacerta
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lacerta

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.