F-type star · yellow-white star

Kappa¹ Ind

Kappa¹ Ind is a yellow-white star in the constellation Indus 219 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,533 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 219 years ago.

219 lybrightness mag 6.13F3V

Also catalogued as HR 8369 · HD 208496 · HIP 108478

6,533 K

temperature

6.13

apparent magnitude

13.85× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

219 years

at light speed from Earth

1.13×

as hot as the Sun

13.85×

the Sun's light output

2.00

absolute magnitude

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Bright stars in Indus

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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Indus

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.