B-type star · blue-white star
Lambda Cap
Lambda Cap is a blue-white star in the constellation Capricornus 282 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,150 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 282 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8319 · HD 207052 · HIP 107517
10,150 K
temperature
5.57
apparent magnitude
38.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
282 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
38.41×
the Sun's light output
0.89
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.