B-type star · blue-white star

6 Lac

6 Lac is a blue-white star in the constellation Lacerta 1,717 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,343 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3,753× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,717 years ago.

1,717 lybrightness mag 4.52B2IV

Also catalogued as HR 8579 · HD 213420 · HIP 111104

11,343 K

temperature

4.52

apparent magnitude

3,753× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,717 years

at light speed from Earth

1.97×

as hot as the Sun

3,753×

the Sun's light output

-4.09

absolute magnitude

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6 LacB-type

Sky regionLacertathis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Lacerta

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lacerta

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.