K-type star · orange

Alpha Mic

Alpha Mic is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 378 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,733 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 130× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 378 years ago.

378 lybrightness mag 4.89G8III

Also catalogued as HR 7965 · HD 198232 · HIP 102831

4,733 K
temperature
4.89
apparent magnitude
130× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
378 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
130×
the Sun's light output
-0.43
absolute magnitude
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Alpha MicK-type
Sky regionMicroscopiumthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Microscopium

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.