K-type star · orange
Gamma² Vol
Gamma² Vol is an orange in the constellation Volans 140 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,728 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.20× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 140 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2736 · HD 55865 · HIP 34481
4,728 K
temperature
3.78
apparent magnitude
49.20× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
140 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
49.20×
the Sun's light output
0.62
absolute magnitude
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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.