F-type star · yellow-white star

Alp Cha

63.8 lybrightness mag 4.05F5III

Also catalogued as HR 3318 · HD 71243 · HIP 40702 · Gliese Gl 305

6,812 K

temperature

4.05

apparent magnitude

7.99× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

64 years

at light speed from Earth

1.18×

as hot as the Sun

7.99×

the Sun's light output

2.59

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Alp ChaF-type

Sky regionChamaeleonthis direction

Nearest stars

Pi Men →10.0 ly apart
HR 4102 →14 ly apart
HR 3220 →18 ly apart
Maru →18 ly apart
HR 3138 →20 ly apart
HR 2468 →21 ly apart

Bright stars in Chamaeleon

Gam Cha →mag 4.1
Bet Cha →mag 4.2
The Cha →mag 4.3
Del2Cha →mag 4.5
Eps Cha →mag 4.9
Kap Cha →mag 5.0
Zet Cha →mag 5.1
Iot Cha →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Chamaeleon

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.