K-type star · orange
Ankaa
Ankaa is an orange in the constellation Phoenix 84.7 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,552 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 64.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 85 years ago.
Also catalogued as Alpha Phe · HR 99 · HD 2261 · HIP 2081
4,552 K
temperature
2.40
apparent magnitude
64.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
85 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
64.45×
the Sun's light output
0.33
absolute magnitude
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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.