F-type star · yellow-white star

Alpha Cae

Alpha Cae is a yellow-white star in the constellation Caelum 65.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,205 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 66 years ago.

65.8 lybrightness mag 4.44F2V

Also catalogued as HR 1502 · HD 29875 · HIP 21770 · Gliese Gl 174.1A

7,205 K
temperature
4.44
apparent magnitude
5.93× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
66 years
at light speed from Earth
1.25×
as hot as the Sun
5.93×
the Sun's light output
2.92
absolute magnitude
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Alpha CaeF-type
Sky regionCaelumthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Caelum

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.