K-type star · orange dwarf

8 Lyn

8 Lyn is an orange dwarf in the constellation Lynx 170 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,999 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 170 years ago.

170 lybrightness mag 5.94G8IV-V

Also catalogued as HR 2394 · HD 46480 · HIP 31676

4,999 K

temperature

5.94

apparent magnitude

9.93× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

170 years

at light speed from Earth

0.87×

as hot as the Sun

9.93×

the Sun's light output

2.36

absolute magnitude

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8 LynK-type

Sky regionLynxthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lynx

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.