B-type star · blue-white star
19 Lyn
19 Lyn is a blue-white star in the constellation Lynx. Its surface is about 10,809 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15,703,628× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.9 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars.
brightness mag 6.86B9V
Also catalogued as HR 2783 · HD 57102 · HIP 35783
10,809 K
temperature
6.86
apparent magnitude
15,703,628× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
15,703,628×
the Sun's light output
-13.14
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.