B-type star · blue-white star

Lambda Tel

Lambda Tel is a blue-white star in the constellation Telescopium 612 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,809 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 352× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 612 years ago.

612 lybrightness mag 4.85A0V

Also catalogued as HR 7134 · HD 175510 · HIP 93148

10,809 K
temperature
4.85
apparent magnitude
352× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
612 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
352×
the Sun's light output
-1.52
absolute magnitude
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Lambda TelB-type
Sky regionTelescopiumthis direction
StarHD 17736555 ly
StarHR 695466 ly
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StarAlpha Telstar
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Telescopium
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Telescopium

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.