B-type star · blue-white star

Aldhanab

211 lybrightness mag 3.00B8III

Also catalogued as Gam Gru · HR 8353 · HD 207971 · HIP 108085

11,311 K

temperature

3.00

apparent magnitude

230× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

211 years

at light speed from Earth

1.96×

as hot as the Sun

230×

the Sun's light output

-1.05

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

AldhanabB-type

Sky regionGrusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8444 →18 ly apart
9Iot PsA →18 ly apart
The1Mic →29 ly apart
Sig2Gru →33 ly apart
Lam Gru →34 ly apart
Sig1Gru →36 ly apart

Bright stars in Grus

Alnair →mag 1.7
Tiaki →mag 2.1
Eps Gru →mag 3.5
Iot Gru →mag 3.9
Del1Gru →mag 4.0
Zet Gru →mag 4.1
Del2Gru →mag 4.1
The Gru →mag 4.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.0To 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.