B-type star · blue-white star
26 Lib
26 Lib is a blue-white star in the constellation Libra 799 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,316 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 177× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 799 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5662 · HD 135230 · HIP 74600
10,316 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
177× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
799 years
at light speed from Earth
1.79×
as hot as the Sun
177×
the Sun's light output
-0.77
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.