K-type star · orange

Kap Gru

364 lybrightness mag 5.37K5III

Also catalogued as HR 8774 · HD 217902 · HIP 113957

3,866 K

temperature

5.37

apparent magnitude

77.13× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

364 years

at light speed from Earth

0.67×

as hot as the Sun

77.13×

the Sun's light output

0.13

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Kap GruK-type

Sky regionGrusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8895 →29 ly apart
Eta Gru →54 ly apart
HR 8909 →59 ly apart
HR 8639 →66 ly apart
HR 8929 →66 ly apart
HR 8919 →67 ly apart

Bright stars in Grus

Alnair →mag 1.7
Tiaki →mag 2.1
Aldhanab →mag 3.0
Eps Gru →mag 3.5
Iot Gru →mag 3.9
Del1Gru →mag 4.0
Zet Gru →mag 4.1
Del2Gru →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Grus

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.