K-type star · orange

Delta¹ Gru

Delta¹ Gru is an orange in the constellation Grus 309 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,691 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 202× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 309 years ago.

309 lybrightness mag 3.97G6/G8III

Also catalogued as HR 8556 · HD 213009 · HIP 110997

4,691 K
temperature
3.97
apparent magnitude
202× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6/G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
309 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
202×
the Sun's light output
-0.92
absolute magnitude
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Delta¹ GruK-type
Sky regionGrusthis direction
StarDelta² Gru21 ly
StarNu Gru33 ly
StarHR 877136 ly
StarAlnairstar
StarTiakistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Grus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Grus

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.