K-type star · orange

Delta Crt

Delta Crt is an orange in the constellation Crater 186 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,489 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 106× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 186 years ago.

186 lybrightness mag 3.56K0III

Also catalogued as HR 4382 · HD 98430 · HIP 55282

4,489 K
temperature
3.56
apparent magnitude
106× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
186 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
106×
the Sun's light output
-0.22
absolute magnitude
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Delta CrtK-type
Sky regionCraterthis direction
StarHR 431519 ly
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StarGamma Crtstar
StarBeta Crtstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Crater
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crater

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.