M-type star · red
47 Cap
47 Cap is a red in the constellation Capricornus 1,186 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,609 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 458× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,186 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8318 · HD 207005 · HIP 107487
3,609 K
temperature
6.00
apparent magnitude
458× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,186 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
458×
the Sun's light output
-1.80
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Nearest stars
Can you see it tonight?
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.