K-type star · orange
26 Lyn
26 Lyn is an orange in the constellation Lynx 841 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,852 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 375× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 841 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3066 · HD 64144 · HIP 38639
3,852 K
temperature
5.47
apparent magnitude
375× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
841 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
375×
the Sun's light output
-1.59
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.