F-type star · yellow-white star
17 Lyr
17 Lyr is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lyra 136 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,061 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 136 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7261 · HD 178449 · HIP 93917
7,061 K
temperature
5.20
apparent magnitude
12.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
136 years
at light speed from Earth
1.22×
as hot as the Sun
12.52×
the Sun's light output
2.11
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.