B-type star · blue-white star
36 Lyn
36 Lyn is a blue-white star in the constellation Lynx 581 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,103 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 210× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 581 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3652 · HD 79158 · HIP 45290
12,103 K
temperature
5.30
apparent magnitude
210× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8IIIMNp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
581 years
at light speed from Earth
2.10×
as hot as the Sun
210×
the Sun's light output
-0.95
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.