B-type star · blue-white star
Kappa Pic
Kappa Pic is a blue-white star in the constellation Pictor 635 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,424 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 120× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 635 years ago.
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
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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.