B-type star · blue-white star
Delta Lup
Delta Lup is a blue-white star in the constellation Lupus 884 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 14,273 K, about 2.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3,296× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 884 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5695 · HD 136298 · HIP 75141
14,273 K
temperature
3.22
apparent magnitude
3,296× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1.5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
884 years
at light speed from Earth
2.47×
as hot as the Sun
3,296×
the Sun's light output
-3.94
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.