A-type star · white star
Xi¹ Lup
Xi¹ Lup is a white star in the constellation Lupus 138 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,757 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.74× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 138 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5925 · HD 142629 · HIP 78105
8,757 K
temperature
5.14
apparent magnitude
13.74× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
138 years
at light speed from Earth
1.52×
as hot as the Sun
13.74×
the Sun's light output
2.00
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.