A-type star · white star

Gamma Cir

Gamma Cir is a white star in the constellation Circinus 449 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,411 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 266× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 449 years ago.

449 lybrightness mag 4.48B5III + F8

Also catalogued as HR 5704 · HD 136415 · HIP 75323

8,411 K
temperature
4.48
apparent magnitude
266× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5III + F8
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
449 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
266×
the Sun's light output
-1.21
absolute magnitude
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Bright stars in Circinus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Circinus

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.