K-type star · orange

Kappa² Ind

Kappa² Ind is an orange in the constellation Indus 491 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,842 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 112× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 491 years ago.

491 lybrightness mag 5.62K4III

Also catalogued as HR 8409 · HD 209529 · HIP 109081

3,842 K

temperature

5.62

apparent magnitude

112× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K4III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

491 years

at light speed from Earth

0.67×

as hot as the Sun

112×

the Sun's light output

-0.27

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook 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.