A-type star · white star
Xi² Lup
Xi² Lup is a white star in the constellation Lupus 150 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,308 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 150 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5926 · HD 142630 · HIP 78106
9,308 K
temperature
5.59
apparent magnitude
10.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
150 years
at light speed from Earth
1.61×
as hot as the Sun
10.73×
the Sun's light output
2.27
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.