B-type star · blue-white star
Gienah
Also catalogued as 4Gam Crv · HR 4662 · HD 106625 · HIP 59803
11,692 K
temperature
2.58
apparent magnitude
179× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
154 years
at light speed from Earth
2.03×
as hot as the Sun
179×
the Sun's light output
-0.79
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.