K-type star · orange

Lambda Dor

Lambda Dor is an orange in the constellation Dorado 458 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,777 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 151× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 458 years ago.

458 lybrightness mag 5.14G6III

Also catalogued as HR 1836 · HD 36189 · HIP 25429

4,777 K
temperature
5.14
apparent magnitude
151× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
458 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
151×
the Sun's light output
-0.60
absolute magnitude
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Lambda DorK-type
Sky regionDoradothis direction
StarHR 207239 ly
StarHR 154061 ly
StarTheta Ret75 ly
StarAlpha Dorstar
StarBeta Dorstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Dorado
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Dorado

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.