A-type star · white star

24 Lyn

24 Lyn is a white star in the constellation Lynx 267 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,989 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 267 years ago.

267 lybrightness mag 4.93A3IVn

Also catalogued as HR 2946 · HD 61497 · HIP 37609

8,989 K

temperature

4.93

apparent magnitude

62.23× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3IVn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

267 years

at light speed from Earth

1.56×

as hot as the Sun

62.23×

the Sun's light output

0.36

absolute magnitude

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24 LynA-type

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.9To 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.