A-type star · white star

4 Lyn

4 Lyn is a white star in the constellation Lynx 496 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,546 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 76.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 496 years ago.

496 lybrightness mag 6.05A3V

Also catalogued as HR 2257 · HD 43812 · HIP 30272

8,546 K

temperature

6.05

apparent magnitude

76.70× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

496 years

at light speed from Earth

1.48×

as hot as the Sun

76.70×

the Sun's light output

0.14

absolute magnitude

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4 LynA-type

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Brightness mag 6.0To 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.