B-type star · blue-white star

28 Lyn

28 Lyn is a blue-white star in the constellation Lynx 631 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,382 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 94.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 631 years ago.

631 lybrightness mag 6.35A1V

Also catalogued as HR 3167 · HD 66824 · HIP 39722

10,382 K
temperature
6.35
apparent magnitude
94.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
631 years
at light speed from Earth
1.80×
as hot as the Sun
94.02×
the Sun's light output
-0.08
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
28 LynB-type
Sky regionLynxthis direction
StarHR 318138 ly
StarHD 6358878 ly
StarHR 2903100 ly
StarAlpha Lynstar
Star38 Lynstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Lynx
Can you see it tonight?
BINOCULARS NEEDED
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.