K-type star · orange

Gam Mic

229 lybrightness mag 4.67G8III

Also catalogued as HR 8039 · HD 199951 · HIP 103738

5,023 K

temperature

4.67

apparent magnitude

58.18× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

229 years

at light speed from Earth

0.87×

as hot as the Sun

58.18×

the Sun's light output

0.44

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Gam MicK-type

Sky regionMicroscopiumthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 7893 →20 ly apart
HR 7935 →21 ly apart
HR 8046 →26 ly apart
HD 201242 →30 ly apart
HR 7853 →33 ly apart
7 PsA →33 ly apart

Bright stars in Microscopium

Eps Mic →mag 4.7
The1Mic →mag 4.8
Alp Mic →mag 4.9
Iot Mic →mag 5.1
Nu Mic →mag 5.1
Zet Mic →mag 5.3
Eta Mic →mag 5.5
Del Mic →mag 5.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Microscopium

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.