K-type star · orange
15 Lyn
15 Lyn is an orange in the constellation Lynx 178 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,134 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 178 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2560 · HD 50522 · HIP 33449
5,134 K
temperature
4.35
apparent magnitude
47.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
178 years
at light speed from Earth
0.89×
as hot as the Sun
47.38×
the Sun's light output
0.66
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.