K-type star · orange dwarf

Karaka

128 lybrightness mag 8.71K0/K1V

Also catalogued as HD 137388 · HIP 76351

5,021 K

temperature

8.71

apparent magnitude

0.44× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0/K1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

128 years

at light speed from Earth

0.87×

as hot as the Sun

0.44×

the Sun's light output

5.74

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

KarakaK-type

Sky regionApusthis direction

Nearest stars

Eta Aps →13 ly apart
HR 6994 →22 ly apart
HR 6751 →26 ly apart
HR 2848 →27 ly apart
Gam Aps →29 ly apart
Pi Cha →29 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 8.7To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.