M-type star · red
Tiaki
Tiaki is a red in the constellation Grus 177 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,635 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 381× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 177 years ago.
Also catalogued as Beta Gru · HR 8636 · HD 214952 · HIP 112122
3,635 K
temperature
2.07
apparent magnitude
381× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
177 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
381×
the Sun's light output
-1.60
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.