A-type star · white star

Kappa Oct

Kappa Oct is a white star in the constellation Octans 273 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,297 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 273 years ago.

273 lybrightness mag 5.56A2m...

Also catalogued as HR 5084 · HD 117374 · HIP 66753

8,297 K

temperature

5.56

apparent magnitude

36.48× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2m...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

273 years

at light speed from Earth

1.44×

as hot as the Sun

36.48×

the Sun's light output

0.94

absolute magnitude

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Kappa OctA-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

StarPolaris Australis24 ly

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Octans

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Octans

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.