F-type star · yellow-white star

Omicron Gru

Omicron Gru is a yellow-white star in the constellation Grus 100 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,833 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 100 years ago.

100 lybrightness mag 5.53F4V

Also catalogued as HR 8907 · HD 220729 · HIP 115713

6,833 K
temperature
5.53
apparent magnitude
5.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
100 years
at light speed from Earth
1.18×
as hot as the Sun
5.06×
the Sun's light output
3.09
absolute magnitude
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Omicron GruF-type
Sky regionGrusthis direction
StarZeta Gru11 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Grus

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.