A-type star · white star
16 Lyn
16 Lyn is a white star in the constellation Lynx 241 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,800 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 52.10× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 241 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2585 · HD 50973 · HIP 33485
9,800 K
temperature
4.90
apparent magnitude
52.10× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
241 years
at light speed from Earth
1.70×
as hot as the Sun
52.10×
the Sun's light output
0.56
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.