A-type star · white star
Iota² Lib
Iota² Lib is a white star in the constellation Libra 228 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,802 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 228 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5656 · HD 134967 · HIP 74493
8,802 K
temperature
6.07
apparent magnitude
15.88× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
228 years
at light speed from Earth
1.52×
as hot as the Sun
15.88×
the Sun's light output
1.85
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.