F-type star · yellow-white star
Omicron Lib
Omicron Lib is a yellow-white star in the constellation Libra 185 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,918 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 185 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5703 · HD 136407 · HIP 75118
6,918 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
9.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
185 years
at light speed from Earth
1.20×
as hot as the Sun
9.78×
the Sun's light output
2.37
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.