B-type star · blue-white star

Kap2Aps

780 lybrightness mag 5.64B8IV

Also catalogued as HR 5782 · HD 138800 · HIP 76750

10,653 K

temperature

5.64

apparent magnitude

276× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

780 years

at light speed from Earth

1.85×

as hot as the Sun

276×

the Sun's light output

-1.25

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Kap2ApsB-type

Sky regionApusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5547 →63 ly apart
HR 6135 →72 ly apart
Del1Aps →80 ly apart
HD 129899 →85 ly apart
HD 130942 →91 ly apart
HR 6276 →100 ly apart

Bright stars in Apus

Paradys →mag 3.8
Gam Aps →mag 3.9
Bet Aps →mag 4.2
Del1Aps →mag 4.7
Zet Aps →mag 4.8
Eta Aps →mag 4.9
Eps Aps →mag 5.1
Del2Aps →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Apus

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.