K-type star · orange dwarf

Karaka

Karaka is an orange dwarf in the constellation Apus 128 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,021 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 0.44× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 8.7 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 128 years ago.

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
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KarakaK-type
Sky regionApusthis direction
StarEta Aps13 ly
StarHR 699422 ly
StarHR 675126 ly
StarParadysstar
StarBeta Apsstar
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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.