A-type star · white star

Gamma Crt

Gamma Crt is a white star in the constellation Crater 82.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,041 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 82 years ago.

82.3 lybrightness mag 4.06A9V

Also catalogued as HR 4405 · HD 99211 · HIP 55705

8,041 K
temperature
4.06
apparent magnitude
13.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
82 years
at light speed from Earth
1.39×
as hot as the Sun
13.18×
the Sun's light output
2.05
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crater

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.