K-type star · orange

Kappa CrB

Kappa CrB is an orange in the constellation Corona Borealis 99.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,752 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.83× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 99 years ago.

99.5 lybrightness mag 4.79K0III-IV

Also catalogued as HR 5901 · HD 142091 · HIP 77655

4,752 K

temperature

4.79

apparent magnitude

9.83× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0III-IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

99 years

at light speed from Earth

0.82×

as hot as the Sun

9.83×

the Sun's light output

2.37

absolute magnitude

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Kappa CrBK-type

Sky regionCorona Borealisthis direction

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Bright stars in Corona Borealis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Corona Borealis

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.