A-type star · white star

33 Lyn

33 Lyn is a white star in the constellation Lynx 355 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,531 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 355 years ago.

355 lybrightness mag 5.76A2Vnn

Also catalogued as HR 3377 · HD 72524 · HIP 42090

9,531 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
51.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2Vnn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
355 years
at light speed from Earth
1.65×
as hot as the Sun
51.19×
the Sun's light output
0.58
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook 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.