K-type star · orange

Alpha Lyn

Alpha Lyn is an orange in the constellation Lynx 203 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,720 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 187× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 203 years ago.

203 lybrightness mag 3.14M0IIIvar

Also catalogued as HR 3705 · HD 80493 · HIP 45860

3,720 K
temperature
3.14
apparent magnitude
187× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
203 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
187×
the Sun's light output
-0.83
absolute magnitude
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Alpha LynK-type
Sky regionLynxthis direction
StarSigma² Cnc20 ly
Star10 LMi21 ly
StarSigma¹ Cnc24 ly
Star38 Lynstar
StarAlsciaukatstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Lynx
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.1To 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.