K-type star · orange

Kang

Kang is an orange in the constellation Virgo 255 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,081 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 113× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 255 years ago.

255 lybrightness mag 4.18K3III

Also catalogued as Kappa Vir · HR 5315 · HD 124294 · HIP 69427

4,081 K
temperature
4.18
apparent magnitude
113× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
255 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
113×
the Sun's light output
-0.28
absolute magnitude
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KangK-type
Sky regionVirgothis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Virgo

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.