G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
Gamma¹ Sgr
Gamma¹ Sgr is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Sagittarius 870 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,360 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 847× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 870 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6742 · HD 164975 · HIP 88567
5,360 K
temperature
4.66
apparent magnitude
847× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G0Ib/II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
870 years
at light speed from Earth
0.93×
as hot as the Sun
847×
the Sun's light output
-2.47
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.