K-type star · orange

Zeta Cap

Zeta Cap is an orange in the constellation Capricornus 386 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,738 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 378× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 386 years ago.

386 lybrightness mag 3.77G4Ibp...

Also catalogued as HR 8204 · HD 204075 · HIP 105881

4,738 K

temperature

3.77

apparent magnitude

378× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G4Ibp...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

386 years

at light speed from Earth

0.82×

as hot as the Sun

378×

the Sun's light output

-1.59

absolute magnitude

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Zeta CapK-type

Sky regionCapricornusthis direction

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Bright stars in Capricornus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.8To 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.