A-type star · white star

Kappa Phe

Kappa Phe is a white star in the constellation Phoenix 77.7 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,362 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 78 years ago.

77.7 lybrightness mag 3.93A7V

Also catalogued as HR 100 · HD 2262 · HIP 2072 · Gliese Gl 20

8,362 K
temperature
3.93
apparent magnitude
13.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
78 years
at light speed from Earth
1.45×
as hot as the Sun
13.23×
the Sun's light output
2.05
absolute magnitude
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Kappa PheA-type
Sky regionPhoenixthis direction
StarAnkaa7.3 ly
StarHR 14013 ly
StarTheta Scl14 ly
StarBeta Phestar
StarGamma Phestar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Phoenix
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Phoenix

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.