K-type star · orange

Gamma² Nor

Gamma² Nor is an orange in the constellation Norma 129 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,559 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.79× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 129 years ago.

129 lybrightness mag 4.01G8III

Also catalogued as HR 6072 · HD 146686 · HIP 80000 · Gliese GJ 9554

4,559 K
temperature
4.01
apparent magnitude
33.79× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
129 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
33.79×
the Sun's light output
1.03
absolute magnitude
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Gamma² NorK-type
Sky regionNormathis direction
StarDelta Nor14 ly
StarIota¹ Nor18 ly
StarZeta² Sco23 ly
StarEpsilon Norstar
StarEta Norstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Norma
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Norma

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.