Star profile
Gamma Apus
What is Gamma Apus
Gamma Apodis watches over one of the southernmost corners of the sky, in the Bird of Paradise constellation, invisible from Europe. It is an orange K-type giant about 156 light-years away, cool and swollen, the evolutionary descendant of a star somewhat more massive than the Sun. It belongs to a group of stars first charted by European navigators of the sixteenth century as they crossed the celestial equator.
Where it is and when to see it
Gamma Apus lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is June: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for Gamma Apus
- Constellation
- Apus
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.86
- Distance
- 156.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 248.364° · Dec -78.897°
- Catalogue
- HIP 81065 · HD 147675
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Other stars in Apus
Apus has 21 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Apus3.83
- Beta Apus4.23
- Delta 1 Apus4.68
- Zeta Apus4.76
- Eta Apus4.89
- Epsilon Apus5.06
- Delta 2 Apus5.27
- HIP 732235.37