K-type star · orange

13 Lyr

13 Lyr is an orange in the constellation Lyra 298 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,955 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 170× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 298 years ago.

298 lybrightness mag 4.08M5IIIvar

Also catalogued as HR 7157 · HD 175865 · HIP 92862

3,955 K
temperature
4.08
apparent magnitude
170× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M5IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
298 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
170×
the Sun's light output
-0.72
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lyra

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.