F-type star · yellow-white star

Kap1Scl

253 lybrightness mag 5.42F3V

Also catalogued as HR 24 · HD 493 · HIP 761

6,807 K

temperature

5.42

apparent magnitude

35.48× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

253 years

at light speed from Earth

1.18×

as hot as the Sun

35.48×

the Sun's light output

0.97

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Kap1SclF-type

Sky regionSculptorthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 9044 →20 ly apart
HR 12 →25 ly apart
HR 8999 →37 ly apart
HR 9043 →42 ly apart
Uúba →44 ly apart
HR 251 →46 ly apart

Bright stars in Sculptor

Alp Scl →mag 4.3
Bet Scl →mag 4.4
Gam Scl →mag 4.4
Del Scl →mag 4.6
Eta Scl →mag 4.9
Zet Scl →mag 5.0
Iot Scl →mag 5.2
The Scl →mag 5.2

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sculptor

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.