F-type star · yellow-white star

Gamma Dor

Gamma Dor is a yellow-white star in the constellation Dorado 66.7 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,386 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 67 years ago.

66.7 lybrightness mag 4.26F4III

Also catalogued as HR 1338 · HD 27290 · HIP 19893 · Gliese Gl 167.1

7,386 K
temperature
4.26
apparent magnitude
7.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
67 years
at light speed from Earth
1.28×
as hot as the Sun
7.21×
the Sun's light output
2.71
absolute magnitude
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Gamma DorF-type
Sky regionDoradothis direction
StarEpsilon Ret11 ly
StarAlpha Cae12 ly
StarKappa Ret16 ly
StarAlpha Dorstar
StarBeta Dorstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Dorado
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Dorado

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.