B-type star · blue-white star

Lambda Col

Lambda Col is a blue-white star in the constellation Columba 335 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,569 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 102× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 335 years ago.

335 lybrightness mag 4.88B5V

Also catalogued as HR 2056 · HD 39764 · HIP 27810

12,569 K
temperature
4.88
apparent magnitude
102× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
335 years
at light speed from Earth
2.18×
as hot as the Sun
102×
the Sun's light output
-0.17
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Columba

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.