K-type star · orange

Delta Oct

Delta Oct is an orange in the constellation Octans 299 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,121 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 138× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 299 years ago.

299 lybrightness mag 4.31K2III

Also catalogued as HR 5339 · HD 124882 · HIP 70638

4,121 K
temperature
4.31
apparent magnitude
138× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
299 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
138×
the Sun's light output
-0.50
absolute magnitude
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Delta OctK-type
Sky regionOctansthis direction
StarOmega Oct20 ly
StarKappa Oct28 ly
StarBeta Cha33 ly
StarNu Octstar
StarBeta Octstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Octans
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Octans

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.