A-type star · white star

Sigma² Gru

Sigma² Gru is a white star in the constellation Grus 215 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,434 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 17.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 215 years ago.

215 lybrightness mag 5.85A1V

Also catalogued as HR 8602 · HD 214150 · HIP 111643

9,434 K
temperature
5.85
apparent magnitude
17.25× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
215 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
17.25×
the Sun's light output
1.76
absolute magnitude
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Sigma² GruA-type
Sky regionGrusthis direction
StarSigma¹ Gru8.1 ly
StarRho Gru17 ly
StarGamma PsA31 ly
StarAlnairstar
StarTiakistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Grus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.