G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

Dofida

124 lybrightness mag 7.17G2V

Also catalogued as HD 117618 · HIP 66047

5,956 K

temperature

7.17

apparent magnitude

1.70× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

124 years

at light speed from Earth

1.03×

as hot as the Sun

1.70×

the Sun's light output

4.27

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

DofidaG-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4903 →18 ly apart
HR 5236 →18 ly apart
Gam Cen →20 ly apart
Tau Cen →22 ly apart
HR 5457 →26 ly apart
HR 4794 →26 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Gam Cen →mag 2.2
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 7.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Centaurus

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.