F-type star · yellow-white star

Gumala

89.9 lybrightness mag 6.25F8V

Also catalogued as HR 7291 · HD 179949 · HIP 94645

6,179 K

temperature

6.25

apparent magnitude

2.09× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

90 years

at light speed from Earth

1.07×

as hot as the Sun

2.09×

the Sun's light output

4.05

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

GumalaF-type

Sky regionSagittariusthis direction

StarAscella10 ly

StarTerebellum15 ly

StarKaus Borealis20 ly

StarKaus Australisstar

StarNunkistar

Nearest stars

Ascella →10 ly apart
Terebellum →15 ly apart
Kaus Borealis →20 ly apart
HR 7126 →20 ly apart
HR 7454 →21 ly apart
Eps CrA →24 ly apart

Bright stars in Sagittarius

Kaus Australis →mag 1.8
Nunki →mag 2.0
Ascella →mag 2.6
Kaus Media →mag 2.7
Kaus Borealis →mag 2.8
Albaldah →mag 2.9
Alnasl →mag 3.0
Eta Sgr →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Sagittarius

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.