K-type star · orange

Gamma CMi

Gamma CMi is an orange in the constellation Canis Minor 318 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,910 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 154× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 318 years ago.

318 lybrightness mag 4.33K3III SB

Also catalogued as HR 2854 · HD 58972 · HIP 36284

3,910 K
temperature
4.33
apparent magnitude
154× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
318 years
at light speed from Earth
0.68×
as hot as the Sun
154×
the Sun's light output
-0.62
absolute magnitude
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Gamma CMiK-type
Sky regionCanis Minorthis direction
StarEta CMi11 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Canis Minor
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canis Minor

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.