M-type star · red
5 Lac
5 Lac is a red in the constellation Lacerta 1,647 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,543 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4,081× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,647 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8572 · HD 213310 · HIP 111022
3,543 K
temperature
4.34
apparent magnitude
4,081× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,647 years
at light speed from Earth
0.61×
as hot as the Sun
4,081×
the Sun's light output
-4.18
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.