B-type star · blue-white star

5Kap Dra

490 lybrightness mag 3.85B6IIIp

Also catalogued as HR 4787 · HD 109387 · HIP 61281

11,849 K

temperature

3.85

apparent magnitude

568× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B6IIIp

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

490 years

at light speed from Earth

2.05×

as hot as the Sun

568×

the Sun's light output

-2.04

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

5Kap DraB-type

Sky regionDracothis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4665 →28 ly apart
HR 4659 →28 ly apart
76 UMa →70 ly apart
HR 5018 →71 ly apart
HR 4927 →74 ly apart
HR 4840 →90 ly apart

Bright stars in Draco

Eltanin →mag 2.2
Athebyne →mag 2.7
Rastaban →mag 2.8
Altais →mag 3.1
Aldhibah →mag 3.2
Edasich →mag 3.3
44Chi Dra →mag 3.5
Thuban →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Draco

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.