B-type star · blue-white star
Sheliak
Sheliak is a blue-white star in the constellation Lyra 962 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,088 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,962× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 962 years ago.
Also catalogued as Beta Lyr · HR 7106 · HD 174638 · HIP 92420
10,088 K
temperature
3.52
apparent magnitude
2,962× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8:V comp SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
962 years
at light speed from Earth
1.75×
as hot as the Sun
2,962×
the Sun's light output
-3.83
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.