M-type star · red

Kappa Pyx

Kappa Pyx is a red in the constellation Pyxis 560 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,657 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 365× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 560 years ago.

560 lybrightness mag 4.62K4/K5III

Also catalogued as HR 3628 · HD 78541 · HIP 44824

3,657 K
temperature
4.62
apparent magnitude
365× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4/K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
560 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
365×
the Sun's light output
-1.55
absolute magnitude
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Kappa PyxM-type
Sky regionPyxisthis direction
StarHR 358537 ly
StarTheta Pyx64 ly
StarHR 340278 ly
StarAlpha Pyxstar
StarBeta Pyxstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pyxis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pyxis

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.