K-type star · orange

Kap2Ind

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Kap2IndK-type

Sky regionIndusthis direction

Nearest stars

Pi Ind →31 ly apart
HR 8646 →44 ly apart
HR 8686 →53 ly apart
HR 8381 →63 ly apart
HR 8125 →70 ly apart
HR 8669 →73 ly apart

Bright stars in Indus

Alp Ind →mag 3.1
Bet Ind →mag 3.7
The Ind →mag 4.4
Del Ind →mag 4.4
Eta Ind →mag 4.5
Eps Ind →mag 4.7
Zet Ind →mag 4.9
Iot Ind →mag 5.1

Can you see it tonight?

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.