K-type star · orange

Phi Cap

Phi Cap is an orange in the constellation Capricornus 643 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,387 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 290× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 643 years ago.

643 lybrightness mag 5.17K0II/III

Also catalogued as HR 8127 · HD 202320 · HIP 104963

4,387 K
temperature
5.17
apparent magnitude
290× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
643 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
290×
the Sun's light output
-1.30
absolute magnitude
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Phi CapK-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook 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.