K-type star · orange

Xi¹ Cap

Xi¹ Cap is an orange in the constellation Capricornus 469 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,291 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 52.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 469 years ago.

469 lybrightness mag 6.34K0III

Also catalogued as HR 7712 · HD 191753 · HIP 99529

4,291 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
52.48× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
469 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
52.48×
the Sun's light output
0.55
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Capricornus

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.