F-type star · yellow-white star

Kappa Crt

Kappa Crt is a yellow-white star in the constellation Crater 229 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,435 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 18.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 229 years ago.

229 lybrightness mag 5.93F4III-IV

Also catalogued as HR 4416 · HD 99564 · HIP 55874

6,435 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
18.16× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F4III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
229 years
at light speed from Earth
1.11×
as hot as the Sun
18.16×
the Sun's light output
1.70
absolute magnitude
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Kappa CrtF-type
Sky regionCraterthis direction
StarHR 425238 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.