K-type star · orange
Lambda Pic
Lambda Pic is an orange in the constellation Pictor 374 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,799 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 87.10× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 374 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1516 · HD 30185 · HIP 21914
4,799 K
temperature
5.30
apparent magnitude
87.10× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0/K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
374 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
87.10×
the Sun's light output
0.00
absolute magnitude
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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.