A-type star · white star

Kap Oct

273 lybrightness mag 5.56A2m...

Also catalogued as HR 5084 · HD 117374 · HIP 66753

8,297 K

temperature

5.56

apparent magnitude

36.48× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2m...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

273 years

at light speed from Earth

1.44×

as hot as the Sun

36.48×

the Sun's light output

0.94

absolute magnitude

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Kap OctA-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

StarPolaris Australis24 ly

Nearest stars

Polaris Australis →24 ly apart
Chi Oct →26 ly apart
Del Oct →28 ly apart
Bet Cha →43 ly apart
Ome Oct →45 ly apart
HD 141846 →45 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 5.6To 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.