B-type star · blue-white star

Pi Cap

Pi Cap is a blue-white star in the constellation Capricornus 545 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,781 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 226× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 545 years ago.

545 lybrightness mag 5.08B4V

Also catalogued as HR 7814 · HD 194636 · HIP 100881

10,781 K

temperature

5.08

apparent magnitude

226× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

545 years

at light speed from Earth

1.87×

as hot as the Sun

226×

the Sun's light output

-1.04

absolute magnitude

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Pi CapB-type

Sky regionCapricornusthis direction

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Bright stars in Capricornus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Capricornus

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.