K-type star · orange

Delta CrA

Delta CrA is an orange in the constellation Corona Australis 179 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,581 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.76× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 179 years ago.

179 lybrightness mag 4.57K1III

Also catalogued as HR 7242 · HD 177873 · HIP 94005

4,581 K

temperature

4.57

apparent magnitude

38.76× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

179 years

at light speed from Earth

0.79×

as hot as the Sun

38.76×

the Sun's light output

0.88

absolute magnitude

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Delta CrAK-type

Sky regionCorona Australisthis direction

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Bright stars in Corona Australis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Corona Australis

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.