A-type star · white star

Xi 2Lup

150 lybrightness mag 5.59B9V

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Xi 2LupA-type

Sky regionLupusthis direction

Nearest stars

Xi 1Lup →12 ly apart
HR 6077 →17 ly apart
HR 5923 →20 ly apart
HR 6070 →23 ly apart
HR 5975 →28 ly apart
HR 5872 →30 ly apart

Bright stars in Lupus

Uridim →mag 2.3
Bet Lup →mag 2.7
Gam Lup →mag 2.8
Del Lup →mag 3.2
Eps Lup →mag 3.4
Zet Lup →mag 3.4
Eta Lup →mag 3.4
Iot Lup →mag 3.5

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lupus

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.