M-type star · red

Tengshe

Tengshe is a red in the constellation Lacerta 1,599 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,418 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,113× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,599 years ago.

1,599 lybrightness mag 4.99K5Ibvar

Also catalogued as HR 8726 · HD 216946 · HIP 113288

3,418 K
temperature
4.99
apparent magnitude
2,113× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5Ibvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,599 years
at light speed from Earth
0.59×
as hot as the Sun
2,113×
the Sun's light output
-3.46
absolute magnitude
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TengsheM-type
Sky regionLacertathis direction
StarHR 8606140 ly
Star5 Lac150 ly
StarHR 8692250 ly
StarStelliostar
Star1 Lacstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Lacerta
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lacerta

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.