M-type star · red
Gudja
Gudja is a red in the constellation Serpens 382 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,627 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 276× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 382 years ago.
Also catalogued as Kappa Ser · HR 5879 · HD 141477 · HIP 77450
3,627 K
temperature
4.09
apparent magnitude
276× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
382 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
276×
the Sun's light output
-1.25
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.