K-type star · orange

Delta¹ Cha

Delta¹ Cha is an orange in the constellation Chamaeleon 348 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,848 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 65.10× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 348 years ago.

348 lybrightness mag 5.46K0III

Also catalogued as HR 4231 · HD 93779 · HIP 52595

4,848 K
temperature
5.46
apparent magnitude
65.10× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
348 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
65.10×
the Sun's light output
0.32
absolute magnitude
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Delta¹ ChaK-type
Sky regionChamaeleonthis direction
StarDelta² Cha2.3 ly
StarHR 450724 ly
StarEta Oct25 ly
StarAlpha Chastar
StarGamma Chastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Chamaeleon
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Chamaeleon

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.