M-type star · red

Gacrux

88.6 lybrightness mag 1.59M4III

Also catalogued as Gam Cru · HR 4763 · HD 108903 · HIP 61084

3,649 K

temperature

1.59

apparent magnitude

148× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M4III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

89 years

at light speed from Earth

0.63×

as hot as the Sun

148×

the Sun's light output

-0.58

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

GacruxM-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4734 →13 ly apart
HR 4413 →16 ly apart
HR 4788 →20 ly apart
HR 4257 →22 ly apart
Del Mus →23 ly apart
HR 4600 →24 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Imai →mag 2.8
Ginan →mag 3.6
Mu 1Cru →mag 4.0
Zet Cru →mag 4.1
Eta Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Lam Cru →mag 4.6
Iot Cru →mag 4.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 1.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crux

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.