K-type star · orange

Lambda² Tuc

Lambda² Tuc is an orange in the constellation Tucana 222 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,526 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 26.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 222 years ago.

222 lybrightness mag 5.45G7III

Also catalogued as HR 270 · HD 5457 · HIP 4293

4,526 K
temperature
5.45
apparent magnitude
26.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
222 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
26.62×
the Sun's light output
1.29
absolute magnitude
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Lambda² TucK-type
Sky regionTucanathis direction
StarLambda¹ Tuc15 ly
StarEta² Hyi22 ly
StarLambda Hyi23 ly
StarLang-Exsterstar
StarGamma Tucstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Tucana
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Tucana

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.