B-type star · blue-white star

Epsilon Cap

Epsilon Cap is a blue-white star in the constellation Capricornus 1,056 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,121 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,432× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,056 years ago.

1,056 lybrightness mag 4.51B3V:p

Also catalogued as HR 8260 · HD 205637 · HIP 106723

13,121 K

temperature

4.51

apparent magnitude

1,432× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V:p

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,056 years

at light speed from Earth

2.27×

as hot as the Sun

1,432×

the Sun's light output

-3.04

absolute magnitude

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Epsilon CapB-type

Sky regionCapricornusthis direction

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Bright stars in Capricornus

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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.