Star profile
14 Lynx
What is 14 Lynx
14 Lyncis peers out from Lynx, that faint constellation Hevelius invented in the seventeenth century to fill a silent gap between the Great Bear and Auriga. It is a yellow G-type star, sunlike in colour but located 487 light-years away from Earth. Legend has it that only those with lynx-sharp eyes can pick out its stars unaided by optics; this one sits just inside that delicate threshold.
Where it is and when to see it
14 Lynx lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is December, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 82° up.
- From New York it never sets and culminates about 71° up.
- From Sydney it never rises above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 31° S.
It ranks no. 24 in brightness among the 60 stars of Lynx in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alpha Lynx, the brightest: it lies about 35° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 490 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 14 Lynx
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.34
- Distance
- 486.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 103.271° · Dec 59.449°
- Catalogue
- HIP 33048 · HD 49618
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Other stars in Lynx
Lynx has 60 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
See all 60 stars in Lynx