A-type star · white star

2 Lyn

2 Lyn is a white star in the constellation Lynx 157 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,743 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 157 years ago.

157 lybrightness mag 4.44A2Vs

Also catalogued as HR 2238 · HD 43378 · HIP 30060

9,743 K

temperature

4.44

apparent magnitude

33.64× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2Vs

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

157 years

at light speed from Earth

1.69×

as hot as the Sun

33.64×

the Sun's light output

1.03

absolute magnitude

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2 LynA-type

Sky regionLynxthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.4To 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.