F-type star · yellow-white star
Tau² Lup
Tau² Lup is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lupus 319 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,704 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 155× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 319 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5396 · HD 126354 · HIP 70576
6,704 K
temperature
4.33
apparent magnitude
155× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7:+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
319 years
at light speed from Earth
1.16×
as hot as the Sun
155×
the Sun's light output
-0.62
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.