B-type star · blue-white star
Sulafat
Sulafat is a blue-white star in the constellation Lyra 620 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,781 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,578× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 620 years ago.
Also catalogued as Gamma Lyr · HR 7178 · HD 176437 · HIP 93194
10,781 K
temperature
3.25
apparent magnitude
1,578× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
620 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
1,578×
the Sun's light output
-3.15
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Nearest stars
Can you see it tonight?
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.