K-type star · orange

Gam3Oct

255 lybrightness mag 5.29K1/K2III

Also catalogued as HR 30 · HD 636 · HIP 814

4,628 K

temperature

5.29

apparent magnitude

40.63× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1/K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

255 years

at light speed from Earth

0.80×

as hot as the Sun

40.63×

the Sun's light output

0.83

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Gam3OctK-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

Gam1Oct →11 ly apart
HR 8786 →22 ly apart
HR 7698 →31 ly apart
Chi Oct →34 ly apart
HR 981 →38 ly apart
Eps Oct →42 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Bet Oct →mag 4.1
Del Oct →mag 4.3
The Oct →mag 4.8
Eps Oct →mag 5.1
Gam1Oct →mag 5.1
Alp Oct →mag 5.1
Lam Oct →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Octans

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.