K-type star · orange

Sigma Cap

Sigma Cap is an orange in the constellation Capricornus 1,121 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,960 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 795× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,121 years ago.

1,121 lybrightness mag 5.28K2III

Also catalogued as HR 7761 · HD 193150 · HIP 100195

3,960 K
temperature
5.28
apparent magnitude
795× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,121 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
795×
the Sun's light output
-2.40
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To 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.