K-type star · orange

41 Cap

41 Cap is an orange in the constellation Capricornus 231 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,764 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 231 years ago.

231 lybrightness mag 5.24K0III

Also catalogued as HR 8285 · HD 206356 · HIP 107128

4,764 K
temperature
5.24
apparent magnitude
34.93× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
231 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
34.93×
the Sun's light output
0.99
absolute magnitude
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41 CapK-type
Sky regionCapricornusthis direction
StarHR 823514 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Capricornus
Can you see it tonight?
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.