K-type star · orange

18 Lyn

18 Lyn is an orange in the constellation Lynx 199 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,556 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 26.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 199 years ago.

199 lybrightness mag 5.20K2III

Also catalogued as HR 2715 · HD 55280 · HIP 35146

4,556 K

temperature

5.20

apparent magnitude

26.96× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

199 years

at light speed from Earth

0.79×

as hot as the Sun

26.96×

the Sun's light output

1.27

absolute magnitude

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18 LynK-type

Sky regionLynxthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lynx

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.