A-type star · white star
Kappa² Boo
Kappa² Boo is a white star in the constellation Boötes 163 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,916 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 163 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5329 · HD 124675 · HIP 69483
7,916 K
temperature
4.53
apparent magnitude
33.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
163 years
at light speed from Earth
1.37×
as hot as the Sun
33.70×
the Sun's light output
1.03
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.