K-type star · orange

Alpha¹ Cap

Alpha¹ Cap is an orange in the constellation Capricornus 569 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,923 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 505× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 569 years ago.

569 lybrightness mag 4.30G3Ib

Also catalogued as HR 7747 · HD 192876 · HIP 100027

4,923 K
temperature
4.30
apparent magnitude
505× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G3Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
569 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
505×
the Sun's light output
-1.91
absolute magnitude
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Alpha¹ CapK-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To 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.