B-type star · blue-white star

Gam Cen

130 lybrightness mag 2.20A1IV

Also catalogued as HR 4819 · HD 110304 · HIP 61932

10,422 K

temperature

2.20

apparent magnitude

183× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

130 years

at light speed from Earth

1.81×

as hot as the Sun

183×

the Sun's light output

-0.81

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Gam CenB-type

Sky regionCentaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Tau Cen →2.0 ly apart
HR 4903 →12 ly apart
HR 4749 →20 ly apart
Dofida →20 ly apart
HR 4794 →22 ly apart
Iot Cru →28 ly apart

Bright stars in Centaurus

Menkent →mag 2.1
Eps Cen →mag 2.3
Eta Cen →mag 2.3
Leepwal →mag 2.5
Del Cen →mag 2.6
Kulou →mag 2.8
Lam Cen →mag 3.1
Kap Cen →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.