Star profile
15 Lynx
What is 15 Lynx
15 Lyncis is in fact a binary system 178 light-years away, made of a yellow G5 giant and a hotter F-type companion. The primary spans nearly seven solar radii and shines around 33 times brighter than the Sun, in a stretch of Lynx with no bright neighbours to compete. Modest to the unaided eye, through a telescope it resolves into an uneven pair of fires orbiting in silence.
Where it is and when to see it
15 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: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for 15 Lynx
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.35
- Distance
- 178.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 104.319° · Dec 58.423°
- Catalogue
- HIP 33449 · HD 50522
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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