B-type star · blue-white star

Lambda Eri

Lambda Eri is a blue-white star in the constellation Eridanus 811 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,279 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,075× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 811 years ago.

811 lybrightness mag 4.25B2IVn

Also catalogued as HR 1679 · HD 33328 · HIP 23972

13,279 K

temperature

4.25

apparent magnitude

1,075× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IVn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

811 years

at light speed from Earth

2.30×

as hot as the Sun

1,075×

the Sun's light output

-2.73

absolute magnitude

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Lambda EriB-type

Sky regionEridanusthis direction

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Bright stars in Eridanus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Eridanus

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.