A-type star · white star

9 Lac

9 Lac is a white star in the constellation Lacerta 172 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,767 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.60× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 172 years ago.

172 lybrightness mag 4.64A8IV

Also catalogued as HR 8613 · HD 214454 · HIP 111674

7,767 K

temperature

4.64

apparent magnitude

33.60× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A8IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

172 years

at light speed from Earth

1.35×

as hot as the Sun

33.60×

the Sun's light output

1.03

absolute magnitude

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9 LacA-type

Sky regionLacertathis direction

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Bright stars in Lacerta

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.6To 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.