K-type star · orange
Xi¹ Lib
Xi¹ Lib is an orange in the constellation Libra 337 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,786 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 337 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5554 · HD 131530 · HIP 72934
4,786 K
temperature
5.78
apparent magnitude
45.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
337 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
45.33×
the Sun's light output
0.71
absolute magnitude
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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.