K-type star · orange

Gamma³ Oct

Gamma³ Oct is an orange in the constellation Octans 255 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,628 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 255 years ago.

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
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Gamma³ OctK-type
Sky regionOctansthis direction
StarGamma¹ Oct11 ly
StarHR 878622 ly
StarHR 769831 ly
StarNu Octstar
StarBeta Octstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Octans
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.