A-type star · white star
16 Lyr
16 Lyr is a white star in the constellation Lyra 122 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,273 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 122 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7215 · HD 177196 · HIP 93408
8,273 K
temperature
5.00
apparent magnitude
12.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
122 years
at light speed from Earth
1.43×
as hot as the Sun
12.21×
the Sun's light output
2.13
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.