F-type star · yellow-white star

Kappa¹ Boo

Kappa¹ Boo is a yellow-white star in the constellation Boötes 151 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,912 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.6 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 151 years ago.

151 lybrightness mag 6.62F1V

Also catalogued as HR 5328 · HD 124674 · HIP 69481

6,912 K

temperature

6.62

apparent magnitude

4.23× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

151 years

at light speed from Earth

1.20×

as hot as the Sun

4.23×

the Sun's light output

3.29

absolute magnitude

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Kappa¹ BooF-type

Sky regionBoötesthis direction

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Bright stars in Boötes

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.6To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Boötes

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.