A-type star · white star
Epsilon² Lyr
Epsilon² Lyr is a white star in the constellation Lyra 156 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,321 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 28.89× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 156 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7053 · HD 173607 · HIP 91926
8,321 K
temperature
4.59
apparent magnitude
28.89× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
156 years
at light speed from Earth
1.44×
as hot as the Sun
28.89×
the Sun's light output
1.20
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.