A-type star · white star

Epsilon Gru

Epsilon Gru is a white star in the constellation Grus 129 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,195 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 54.65× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 129 years ago.

129 lybrightness mag 3.49A3V

Also catalogued as HR 8675 · HD 215789 · HIP 112623 · Gliese GJ 9796

9,195 K
temperature
3.49
apparent magnitude
54.65× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
129 years
at light speed from Earth
1.59×
as hot as the Sun
54.65×
the Sun's light output
0.51
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon GruA-type
Sky regionGrusthis direction
StarPi² Gru16 ly
StarTheta Gru19 ly
StarZeta Gru21 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.5To 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.