K-type star · orange
15 Lac
15 Lac is an orange in the constellation Lacerta 325 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,707 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 90.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 325 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8699 · HD 216397 · HIP 112917
3,707 K
temperature
4.95
apparent magnitude
90.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
325 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
90.61×
the Sun's light output
-0.04
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.