F-type star · yellow-white star

The Gru

132 lybrightness mag 4.28F5me...

Also catalogued as HR 8787 · HD 218227 · HIP 114131

6,760 K

temperature

4.28

apparent magnitude

27.64× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5me...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

132 years

at light speed from Earth

1.17×

as hot as the Sun

27.64×

the Sun's light output

1.25

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

The GruF-type

Sky regionGrusthis direction

Nearest stars

Phi Gru →18 ly apart
Pi 2Gru →19 ly apart
Eps Gru →19 ly apart
HR 8814 →23 ly apart
HR 8793 →25 ly apart
Tau1Gru →28 ly apart

Bright stars in Grus

Alnair →mag 1.7
Tiaki →mag 2.1
Aldhanab →mag 3.0
Eps Gru →mag 3.5
Iot Gru →mag 3.9
Del1Gru →mag 4.0
Zet Gru →mag 4.1
Del2Gru →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.3To 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.