B-type star · blue-white star
Kappa¹ CrA
Kappa¹ CrA is a blue-white star in the constellation Corona Australis 974 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,941 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 419× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 974 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6952 · HD 170868 · HIP 90968
10,941 K
temperature
5.67
apparent magnitude
419× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
974 years
at light speed from Earth
1.90×
as hot as the Sun
419×
the Sun's light output
-1.71
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.