G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

Kap For

71.6 lybrightness mag 5.19G2V

Also catalogued as HR 695 · HD 14802 · HIP 11072 · Gliese Gl 97

5,936 K

temperature

5.19

apparent magnitude

3.53× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

72 years

at light speed from Earth

1.03×

as hot as the Sun

3.53×

the Sun's light output

3.48

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Kap ForG-type

Sky regionFornaxthis direction

Nearest stars

Koeia →7.9 ly apart
83Eps Cet →16 ly apart
HR 784 →19 ly apart
Lam2For →20 ly apart
76Sig Cet →20 ly apart
53Chi Cet →20 ly apart

Bright stars in Fornax

Dalim →mag 3.8
Bet For →mag 4.5
Nu For →mag 4.7
Ome For →mag 5.0
Del For →mag 5.0
Phi For →mag 5.1
Mu For →mag 5.3
Pi For →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Fornax

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.