A-type star · white star

Kappa Ari

Kappa Ari is a white star in the constellation Aries 182 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,830 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 26.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 182 years ago.

182 lybrightness mag 5.03A2m

Also catalogued as HR 613 · HD 12869 · HIP 9836

8,830 K

temperature

5.03

apparent magnitude

26.25× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2m

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

182 years

at light speed from Earth

1.53×

as hot as the Sun

26.25×

the Sun's light output

1.30

absolute magnitude

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Kappa AriA-type

Sky regionAriesthis direction

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Bright stars in Aries

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aries

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.