B-type star · blue-white star
Chi Cap
Chi Cap is a blue-white star in the constellation Capricornus 180 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,125 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 180 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8087 · HD 201184 · HIP 104365 · Gliese GJ 9720
10,125 K
temperature
5.30
apparent magnitude
20.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
180 years
at light speed from Earth
1.75×
as hot as the Sun
20.08×
the Sun's light output
1.59
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.