A-type star · white star

Tau³ Gru

Tau³ Gru is a white star in the constellation Grus 243 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,967 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 243 years ago.

243 lybrightness mag 5.72Am...

Also catalogued as HR 8722 · HD 216823 · HIP 113307

7,967 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
24.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Am...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
243 years
at light speed from Earth
1.38×
as hot as the Sun
24.98×
the Sun's light output
1.36
absolute magnitude
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Tau³ GruA-type
Sky regionGrusthis direction
StarRho Gru32 ly
StarHR 883533 ly
StarTheta Phe35 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.