K-type star · orange

36 Cap

36 Cap is an orange in the constellation Capricornus 171 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,026 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 171 years ago.

171 lybrightness mag 4.50K0III

Also catalogued as HR 8213 · HD 204381 · HIP 106039

5,026 K
temperature
4.50
apparent magnitude
37.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
171 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
37.98×
the Sun's light output
0.90
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To 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.