B-type star · blue-white star
Chi Lup
Chi Lup is a blue-white star in the constellation Lupus 195 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,724 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 80.54× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 195 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5883 · HD 141556 · HIP 77634
10,724 K
temperature
3.97
apparent magnitude
80.54× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
195 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
80.54×
the Sun's light output
0.09
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.