B-type star · blue-white star
Delta Lib
Delta Lib is a blue-white star in the constellation Libra 294 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,125 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 76.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 294 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5586 · HD 132742 · HIP 73473
10,125 K
temperature
4.91
apparent magnitude
76.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
294 years
at light speed from Earth
1.75×
as hot as the Sun
76.63×
the Sun's light output
0.14
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.