K-type star · orange
46 Cap
46 Cap is an orange in the constellation Capricornus 792 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,498 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 468× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 792 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8311 · HD 206834 · HIP 107382
4,498 K
temperature
5.10
apparent magnitude
468× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
792 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
468×
the Sun's light output
-1.83
absolute magnitude
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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.