A-type star · white star

Sigma¹ Gru

Sigma¹ Gru is a white star in the constellation Grus 223 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,848 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.50× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 223 years ago.

223 lybrightness mag 6.28A3Vn

Also catalogued as HR 8600 · HD 214085 · HIP 111594

8,848 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
12.50× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
223 years
at light speed from Earth
1.53×
as hot as the Sun
12.50×
the Sun's light output
2.11
absolute magnitude
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Sigma¹ GruA-type
Sky regionGrusthis direction
StarSigma² Gru8.1 ly
StarRho Gru9.8 ly
StarLambda Gru31 ly
StarAlnairstar
StarTiakistar
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.