B-type star · blue-white star
48 Lib
48 Lib is a blue-white star in the constellation Libra 468 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,247 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 188× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 468 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5941 · HD 142983 · HIP 78207
11,247 K
temperature
4.95
apparent magnitude
188× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8Ia/Iab
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
468 years
at light speed from Earth
1.95×
as hot as the Sun
188×
the Sun's light output
-0.83
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.