B-type star · blue-white star

Gam Lup

421 lybrightness mag 2.80B2IV

Also catalogued as HR 5776 · HD 138690 · HIP 76297

13,983 K

temperature

2.80

apparent magnitude

1,100× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

421 years

at light speed from Earth

2.42×

as hot as the Sun

1,100×

the Sun's light output

-2.75

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Gam LupB-type

Sky regionLupusthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 137919 →13 ly apart
Ups Lup →23 ly apart
HR 5781 →29 ly apart
HR 5736 →35 ly apart
HR 5724 →36 ly apart
HR 5943 →38 ly apart

Bright stars in Lupus

Uridim →mag 2.3
Bet Lup →mag 2.7
Del Lup →mag 3.2
Eps Lup →mag 3.4
Zet Lup →mag 3.4
Eta Lup →mag 3.4
Iot Lup →mag 3.5
Phi1Lup →mag 3.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lupus

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.