K-type star · orange

43 Lyn

43 Lyn is an orange in the constellation Lynx 347 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,864 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 347 years ago.

347 lybrightness mag 5.61G8III

Also catalogued as HR 3851 · HD 83805 · HIP 47570

4,864 K
temperature
5.61
apparent magnitude
56.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
347 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
56.34×
the Sun's light output
0.47
absolute magnitude
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43 LynK-type
Sky regionLynxthis direction
StarHR 362060 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To 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.