K-type star · orange

Kap Ara

456 lybrightness mag 5.19K1III

Also catalogued as HR 6468 · HD 157457 · HIP 85312

4,614 K

temperature

5.19

apparent magnitude

143× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

456 years

at light speed from Earth

0.80×

as hot as the Sun

143×

the Sun's light output

-0.54

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Kap AraK-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HD 158907 →53 ly apart
HR 6323 →56 ly apart
Zet Ara →63 ly apart
HR 6632 →66 ly apart
HD 150897 →70 ly apart
HR 6586 →72 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp Ara →mag 2.8
Zet Ara →mag 3.1
Gam Ara →mag 3.3
Del Ara →mag 3.6
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

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.