K-type star · orange
Gamma Aps
Gamma Aps is an orange in the constellation Apus 156 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,936 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 57.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 156 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6102 · HD 147675 · HIP 81065 · Gliese Gl 626.1
4,936 K
temperature
3.86
apparent magnitude
57.12× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IV SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
156 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
57.12×
the Sun's light output
0.46
absolute magnitude
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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.