K-type star · orange dwarf

Zeta Gru

Zeta Gru is an orange dwarf in the constellation Grus 109 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,841 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 109 years ago.

109 lybrightness mag 4.11G8III

Also catalogued as HR 8747 · HD 217364 · HIP 113638

4,841 K
temperature
4.11
apparent magnitude
22.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
109 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
22.02×
the Sun's light output
1.49
absolute magnitude
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Zeta GruK-type
Sky regionGrusthis direction
StarTau¹ Gru8.5 ly
StarOmicron Gru11 ly
StarHR 881419 ly
StarTiakistar
StarAldhanabstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Grus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.1To 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.