F-type star · yellow-white star

Xi² Cap

Xi² Cap is a yellow-white star in the constellation Capricornus 90.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,500 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 90 years ago.

90.3 lybrightness mag 5.84F5V

Also catalogued as HR 7715 · HD 191862 · HIP 99572 · Gliese GJ 4139

6,500 K

temperature

5.84

apparent magnitude

3.08× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

90 years

at light speed from Earth

1.13×

as hot as the Sun

3.08×

the Sun's light output

3.63

absolute magnitude

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Xi² CapF-type

Sky regionCapricornusthis direction

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Bright stars in Capricornus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To 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.