M-type star · red
24 Sgr
24 Sgr is a red in the constellation Sagittarius 2,064 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,398 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,222× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,064 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6961 · HD 171115 · HIP 91004
3,398 K
temperature
5.49
apparent magnitude
2,222× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,064 years
at light speed from Earth
0.59×
as hot as the Sun
2,222×
the Sun's light output
-3.52
absolute magnitude
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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.