K-type star · orange
Phi¹ Lup
Phi¹ Lup is an orange in the constellation Lupus 275 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,743 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 231× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 275 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5705 · HD 136422 · HIP 75177
3,743 K
temperature
3.57
apparent magnitude
231× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
275 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
231×
the Sun's light output
-1.06
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.