F-type star · yellow-white star

Gamma Tuc

Gamma Tuc is a yellow-white star in the constellation Tucana 75.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,827 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.74× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 75 years ago.

75.2 lybrightness mag 3.99F1III

Also catalogued as HR 8848 · HD 219571 · HIP 114996 · Gliese GJ 9818

6,827 K
temperature
3.99
apparent magnitude
11.74× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
75 years
at light speed from Earth
1.18×
as hot as the Sun
11.74×
the Sun's light output
2.18
absolute magnitude
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Gamma TucF-type
Sky regionTucanathis direction
StarHR 88439.4 ly
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Bright stars in Tucana
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Tucana

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.