K-type star · orange
Gamma Pyx
Gamma Pyx is an orange in the constellation Pyxis 207 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,172 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 86.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 207 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3518 · HD 75691 · HIP 43409
4,172 K
temperature
4.02
apparent magnitude
86.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
207 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
86.78×
the Sun's light output
0.00
absolute magnitude
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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.