K-type star · orange

Chi Oct

257 lybrightness mag 5.29K3III

Also catalogued as HR 6721 · HD 164461 · HIP 92824

4,114 K

temperature

5.29

apparent magnitude

41.34× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

257 years

at light speed from Earth

0.71×

as hot as the Sun

41.34×

the Sun's light output

0.81

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Chi OctK-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

StarHR 769822 ly

StarPolaris Australis25 ly

StarKap Oct26 ly

StarNu Octstar

StarBet Octstar

Nearest stars

HR 7698 →22 ly apart
Polaris Australis →25 ly apart
Kap Oct →26 ly apart
Gam3Oct →34 ly apart
Gam1Oct →36 ly apart
HR 6552 →38 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Bet Oct →mag 4.1
Del Oct →mag 4.3
The Oct →mag 4.8
Eps Oct →mag 5.1
Gam1Oct →mag 5.1
Alp Oct →mag 5.1
Lam Oct →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Octans

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.