G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
Kappa For
Kappa For is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Fornax 71.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,936 K, and it shines at 3.53× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 72 years ago.
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
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.