A-type star · white star
Epsilon¹ Lyr
Epsilon¹ Lyr is a white star in the constellation Lyra 162 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,403 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29.24× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 162 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7051 · HD 173582 · HIP 91919
8,403 K
temperature
4.67
apparent magnitude
29.24× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
162 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
29.24×
the Sun's light output
1.19
absolute magnitude
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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.