K-type star · orange

Psi¹ Lup

Psi¹ Lup is an orange in the constellation Lupus 220 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,831 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 54.00× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 220 years ago.

220 lybrightness mag 4.66G8/K0III

Also catalogued as HR 5820 · HD 139521 · HIP 76705

4,831 K
temperature
4.66
apparent magnitude
54.00× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8/K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
220 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
54.00×
the Sun's light output
0.52
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lupus

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.