A-type star · white star

Lambda CrA

Lambda CrA is a white star in the constellation Corona Australis 205 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,277 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 205 years ago.

205 lybrightness mag 5.11A0/A1V

Also catalogued as HR 7021 · HD 172777 · HIP 91875

9,277 K

temperature

5.11

apparent magnitude

31.16× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0/A1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

205 years

at light speed from Earth

1.61×

as hot as the Sun

31.16×

the Sun's light output

1.12

absolute magnitude

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Lambda CrAA-type

Sky regionCorona Australisthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Corona Australis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Corona Australis

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.