K-type star · orange
28 Lib
28 Lib is an orange in the constellation Libra 598 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,686 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 101× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 598 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5701 · HD 136366 · HIP 75110
4,686 K
temperature
6.16
apparent magnitude
101× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
598 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
101×
the Sun's light output
-0.16
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.