G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

14 Lyn

14 Lyn is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Lynx 487 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,689 K, and it shines at 142× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 487 years ago.

487 lybrightness mag 5.34G4III...

Also catalogued as HR 2520 · HD 49618 · HIP 33048

5,689 K
temperature
5.34
apparent magnitude
142× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G4III...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
487 years
at light speed from Earth
0.99×
as hot as the Sun
142×
the Sun's light output
-0.53
absolute magnitude
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14 LynG-type
Sky regionLynxthis direction
Star4 Lyn35 ly
Star40 Cam41 ly
StarHD 4406142 ly
StarAlpha Lynstar
Star38 Lynstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Lynx
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lynx

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.