K-type star · orange

Alsciaukat

Alsciaukat is an orange in the constellation Lynx 382 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,720 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 239× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 382 years ago.

382 lybrightness mag 4.25K5III

Also catalogued as 31 Lyn · HR 3275 · HD 70272 · HIP 41075

3,720 K

temperature

4.25

apparent magnitude

239× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

382 years

at light speed from Earth

0.64×

as hot as the Sun

239×

the Sun's light output

-1.09

absolute magnitude

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AlsciaukatK-type

Sky regionLynxthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.3To 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.