F-type star · yellow-white star

Kappa Ret

Kappa Ret is a yellow-white star in the constellation Reticulum 70.7 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,827 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.35× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 71 years ago.

70.7 lybrightness mag 4.71F5IV-V

Also catalogued as HR 1083 · HD 22001 · HIP 16245 · Gliese Gl 143.2A

6,827 K

temperature

4.71

apparent magnitude

5.35× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

71 years

at light speed from Earth

1.18×

as hot as the Sun

5.35×

the Sun's light output

3.03

absolute magnitude

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Kappa RetF-type

Sky regionReticulumthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Reticulum

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.