F-type star · yellow-white star

32 Lyn

32 Lyn is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lynx 121 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,870 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.97× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 121 years ago.

121 lybrightness mag 6.20F5Vbwvar

Also catalogued as HR 3365 · HD 72291 · HIP 41975

6,870 K

temperature

6.20

apparent magnitude

3.97× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5Vbwvar

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

121 years

at light speed from Earth

1.19×

as hot as the Sun

3.97×

the Sun's light output

3.35

absolute magnitude

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32 LynF-type

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Brightness mag 6.2To 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.