A-type star · white star
44 Cap
44 Cap is a white star in the constellation Capricornus 435 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,760 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 69.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 435 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8295 · HD 206561 · HIP 107232
7,760 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
69.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A9/F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
435 years
at light speed from Earth
1.34×
as hot as the Sun
69.06×
the Sun's light output
0.25
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.