K-type star · orange

Kappa Cap

Kappa Cap is an orange in the constellation Capricornus 294 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,084 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 91.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 294 years ago.

294 lybrightness mag 4.72G8III

Also catalogued as HR 8288 · HD 206453 · HIP 107188

5,084 K
temperature
4.72
apparent magnitude
91.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
294 years
at light speed from Earth
0.88×
as hot as the Sun
91.62×
the Sun's light output
-0.06
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To 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.