F-type star · yellow-white star

Gamma¹ Vol

Gamma¹ Vol is a yellow-white star in the constellation Volans 162 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,694 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 162 years ago.

162 lybrightness mag 5.68F2

Also catalogued as HR 2735 · HD 55864 · HIP 34473

6,694 K
temperature
5.68
apparent magnitude
11.48× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
162 years
at light speed from Earth
1.16×
as hot as the Sun
11.48×
the Sun's light output
2.20
absolute magnitude
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Gamma¹ VolF-type
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Volans

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.