A-type star · white star

Gamma Sct

Gamma Sct is a white star in the constellation Scutum 319 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,266 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 113× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 319 years ago.

319 lybrightness mag 4.67A1IV/V

Also catalogued as HR 6930 · HD 170296 · HIP 90595

9,266 K
temperature
4.67
apparent magnitude
113× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1IV/V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
319 years
at light speed from Earth
1.61×
as hot as the Sun
113×
the Sun's light output
-0.28
absolute magnitude
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Gamma SctA-type
Sky regionScutumthis direction
StarHR 693222 ly
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Bright stars in Scutum
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scutum

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.