B-type star · blue-white star
Aldhanab
Aldhanab is a blue-white star in the constellation Grus 211 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,311 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 230× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 211 years ago.
Also catalogued as Gamma Gru · HR 8353 · HD 207971 · HIP 108085
11,311 K
temperature
3.00
apparent magnitude
230× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
211 years
at light speed from Earth
1.96×
as hot as the Sun
230×
the Sun's light output
-1.05
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.