M-type star · red

Kap Pyx

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Kap PyxM-type

Sky regionPyxisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3585 →37 ly apart
The Pyx →64 ly apart
HR 3402 →78 ly apart
HR 3858 →91 ly apart
HR 3344 →94 ly apart
HR 3710 →96 ly apart

Bright stars in Pyxis

Alp Pyx →mag 3.7
Bet Pyx →mag 4.0
Gam Pyx →mag 4.0
The Pyx →mag 4.7
Lam Pyx →mag 4.7
Zet Pyx →mag 4.9
Del Pyx →mag 4.9
Eta Pyx →mag 5.2

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.