A-type star · white star

Kap Cru

brightness mag 5.89B5Ia

Also catalogued as HR 4890 · HD 111973 · HIP 62931

8,163 K

temperature

5.89

apparent magnitude

38,370,725× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5Ia

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

–

at light speed from Earth

1.41×

as hot as the Sun

38,370,725×

the Sun's light output

-14.11

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Kap CruA-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4887 →420 ly apart
HR 4876 →1,800 ly apart
HR 4908 →20,000 ly apart
HR 4972 →21,000 ly apart
The Mus →30,000 ly apart
HR 4644 →32,000 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Gacrux →mag 1.6
Imai →mag 2.8
Ginan →mag 3.6
Mu 1Cru →mag 4.0
Zet Cru →mag 4.1
Eta Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Lam Cru →mag 4.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crux

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.