K-type star · orange

Gamma¹ Cae

Gamma¹ Cae is an orange in the constellation Caelum 181 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,354 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.74× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 181 years ago.

181 lybrightness mag 4.55K2III

Also catalogued as HR 1652 · HD 32831 · HIP 23595

4,354 K
temperature
4.55
apparent magnitude
40.74× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
181 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
40.74×
the Sun's light output
0.82
absolute magnitude
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Gamma¹ CaeK-type
Sky regionCaelumthis direction
StarHR 187722 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Caelum

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.