B-type star · blue-white star
Lambda Lib
Lambda Lib is a blue-white star in the constellation Libra 309 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,303 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 75.58× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 309 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5902 · HD 142096 · HIP 77811
10,303 K
temperature
5.04
apparent magnitude
75.58× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
309 years
at light speed from Earth
1.78×
as hot as the Sun
75.58×
the Sun's light output
0.15
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.