G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

Gamma Per

Gamma Per is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Perseus 243 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,548 K, and it shines at 332× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 243 years ago.

243 lybrightness mag 2.91G8III+...

Also catalogued as HR 915 · HD 18925 · HIP 14328

5,548 K
temperature
2.91
apparent magnitude
332× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
243 years
at light speed from Earth
0.96×
as hot as the Sun
332×
the Sun's light output
-1.45
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 2.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Perseus

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.