A-type star · white star

Kappa Dor

Kappa Dor is a white star in the constellation Dorado 219 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,117 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 219 years ago.

219 lybrightness mag 5.28A8/A9III/IV

Also catalogued as HR 1530 · HD 30478 · HIP 22040

8,117 K
temperature
5.28
apparent magnitude
30.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8/A9III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
219 years
at light speed from Earth
1.41×
as hot as the Sun
30.23×
the Sun's light output
1.15
absolute magnitude
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Kappa DorA-type
Sky regionDoradothis direction
StarHR 124530 ly
StarHR 191731 ly
StarHR 136535 ly
StarAlpha Dorstar
StarBeta Dorstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Dorado
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Dorado

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.