G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

Amadioha

Amadioha is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Canis Major 184 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,230 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 0.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 9.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 184 years ago.

184 lybrightness mag 8.98G8/K0IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 43197 · HIP 29550

5,230 K

temperature

8.98

apparent magnitude

0.71× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8/K0IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

184 years

at light speed from Earth

0.91×

as hot as the Sun

0.71×

the Sun's light output

5.23

absolute magnitude

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AmadiohaG-type

Sky regionCanis Majorthis direction

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Bright stars in Canis Major

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 9.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Canis Major

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.