K-type star · orange

Gamma Ret

Gamma Ret is an orange in the constellation Reticulum 469 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,794 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 291× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 469 years ago.

469 lybrightness mag 4.48M4III

Also catalogued as HR 1264 · HD 25705 · HIP 18744

3,794 K
temperature
4.48
apparent magnitude
291× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
469 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
291×
the Sun's light output
-1.31
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Reticulum

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.