K-type star · orange

Ginan

230 lybrightness mag 3.59K3/K4III

Also catalogued as Eps Cru · HR 4700 · HD 107446 · HIP 60260

3,968 K

temperature

3.59

apparent magnitude

158× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3/K4III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

230 years

at light speed from Earth

0.69×

as hot as the Sun

158×

the Sun's light output

-0.65

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

GinanK-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

The1Cru →16 ly apart
HR 4771 →21 ly apart
HR 4475 →22 ly apart
HR 5130 →40 ly apart
HR 4782 →45 ly apart
HR 5041 →47 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Gacrux →mag 1.6
Imai →mag 2.8
Mu 1Cru →mag 4.0
Zet Cru →mag 4.1
Eta Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Lam Cru →mag 4.6
Iot Cru →mag 4.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crux

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.