K-type star · orange

Kappa Gru

Kappa Gru is an orange in the constellation Grus 364 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,866 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 77.13× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 364 years ago.

364 lybrightness mag 5.37K5III

Also catalogued as HR 8774 · HD 217902 · HIP 113957

3,866 K
temperature
5.37
apparent magnitude
77.13× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
364 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
77.13×
the Sun's light output
0.13
absolute magnitude
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Kappa GruK-type
Sky regionGrusthis direction
StarHR 889529 ly
StarEta Gru54 ly
StarHR 890959 ly
StarAlnairstar
StarTiakistar
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Grus

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.