F-type star · yellow-white star

Lambda Crt

Lambda Crt is a yellow-white star in the constellation Crater 140 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,679 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.87× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 140 years ago.

140 lybrightness mag 5.08F3IV

Also catalogued as HR 4395 · HD 98991 · HIP 55598

6,679 K
temperature
5.08
apparent magnitude
14.87× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
140 years
at light speed from Earth
1.16×
as hot as the Sun
14.87×
the Sun's light output
1.92
absolute magnitude
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Lambda CrtF-type
Sky regionCraterthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crater

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.