M-type star · red

Gam Hyi

214 lybrightness mag 3.26M2III

Also catalogued as HR 1208 · HD 24512 · HIP 17678

3,663 K

temperature

3.26

apparent magnitude

186× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

M2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

214 years

at light speed from Earth

0.63×

as hot as the Sun

186×

the Sun's light output

-0.82

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Gam HyiM-type

Sky regionHydrusthis direction

Nearest stars

Tau2Hyi →34 ly apart
Eta2Hyi →42 ly apart
Lam Hyi →43 ly apart
HR 1014 →44 ly apart
HR 823 →48 ly apart
Nu Men →51 ly apart

Bright stars in Hydrus

Bet Hyi →mag 2.8
Alp Hyi →mag 2.9
Del Hyi →mag 4.1
Eps Hyi →mag 4.1
Eta2Hyi →mag 4.7
Nu Hyi →mag 4.8
Zet Hyi →mag 4.8
Lam Hyi →mag 5.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hydrus

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.