K-type star · orange
2 Lib
2 Lib is an orange in the constellation Libra 335 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,767 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29.84× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 335 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5383 · HD 126035 · HIP 70336
4,767 K
temperature
6.22
apparent magnitude
29.84× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
335 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
29.84×
the Sun's light output
1.16
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.