A-type star · white star
14 Lac
14 Lac is a white star in the constellation Lacerta 1,136 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,412 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 458× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,136 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8690 · HD 216200 · HIP 112778
9,412 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
458× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3IV:var
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,136 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
458×
the Sun's light output
-1.80
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.