B-type star · blue-white star
Lambda Lup
Lambda Lup is a blue-white star in the constellation Lupus 777 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,733 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,163× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 777 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5626 · HD 133955 · HIP 74117
12,733 K
temperature
4.07
apparent magnitude
1,163× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
777 years
at light speed from Earth
2.21×
as hot as the Sun
1,163×
the Sun's light output
-2.81
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.