K-type star · orange

Kappa² Scl

Kappa² Scl is an orange in the constellation Sculptor 794 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,041 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 354× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 794 years ago.

794 lybrightness mag 5.41K2III

Also catalogued as HR 34 · HD 720 · HIP 930

4,041 K
temperature
5.41
apparent magnitude
354× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
794 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
354×
the Sun's light output
-1.52
absolute magnitude
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Kappa² SclK-type
Sky regionSculptorthis direction
StarHR 907370 ly
StarHR 4375 ly
StarHR 9049120 ly
StarAlpha Sclstar
StarBeta Sclstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Sculptor
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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.