K-type star · orange

Gamma Mic

Gamma Mic is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 229 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,023 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 229 years ago.

229 lybrightness mag 4.67G8III

Also catalogued as HR 8039 · HD 199951 · HIP 103738

5,023 K
temperature
4.67
apparent magnitude
58.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
229 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
58.18×
the Sun's light output
0.44
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Microscopium

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.