M-type star · red

Gamma Hyi

Gamma Hyi is a red in the constellation Hydrus 214 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,663 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 186× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 214 years ago.

214 lybrightness mag 3.26M2III

Also catalogued as HR 1208 · HD 24512 · HIP 17678

3,663 K
temperature
3.26
apparent magnitude
186× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
214 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
186×
the Sun's light output
-0.82
absolute magnitude
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Gamma HyiM-type
Sky regionHydrusthis direction
StarTau² Hyi34 ly
StarEta² Hyi42 ly
StarLambda Hyi43 ly
StarBeta Hyistar
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hydrus

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.