K-type star · orange

25 Lyn

25 Lyn is an orange in the constellation Lynx 805 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,445 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 168× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 805 years ago.

805 lybrightness mag 6.25K2III:

Also catalogued as HR 3065 · HD 64106 · HIP 38623

4,445 K

temperature

6.25

apparent magnitude

168× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

805 years

at light speed from Earth

0.77×

as hot as the Sun

168×

the Sun's light output

-0.71

absolute magnitude

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25 LynK-type

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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.