B-type star · blue-white star

Kap Pic

635 lybrightness mag 6.10B8/B9V

Also catalogued as HR 1801 · HD 35580 · HIP 25098

11,424 K

temperature

6.10

apparent magnitude

120× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8/B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

635 years

at light speed from Earth

1.98×

as hot as the Sun

120×

the Sun's light output

-0.34

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Kap PicB-type

Sky regionPictorthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 1727 →50 ly apart
HR 2114 →77 ly apart
HR 2044 →90 ly apart
HR 1695 →100 ly apart
HR 1498 →110 ly apart
HR 2369 →120 ly apart

Bright stars in Pictor

Alp Pic →mag 3.2
Gam Pic →mag 4.5
Del Pic →mag 4.7
Eta2Pic →mag 5.0
Lam Pic →mag 5.3
Eta1Pic →mag 5.4
Zet Pic →mag 5.4
Iot Pic →mag 5.6

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pictor

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.