K-type star · orange

Beta Lac

Beta Lac is an orange in the constellation Lacerta 170 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,707 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 170 years ago.

170 lybrightness mag 4.42G9III

Also catalogued as HR 8538 · HD 212496 · HIP 110538

4,707 K
temperature
4.42
apparent magnitude
40.36× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
170 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
40.36×
the Sun's light output
0.83
absolute magnitude
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Beta LacK-type
Sky regionLacertathis direction
Star9 Lac6.9 ly
StarHR 846315 ly
Star3 And21 ly
StarStelliostar
Star1 Lacstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Lacerta
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lacerta

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.