B-type star · blue-white star

Kap1Aps

1,240 lybrightness mag 5.40B1npe

Also catalogued as HR 5730 · HD 137387 · HIP 76013

12,409 K

temperature

5.40

apparent magnitude

871× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1npe

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,240 years

at light speed from Earth

2.15×

as hot as the Sun

871×

the Sun's light output

-2.50

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Kap1ApsB-type

Sky regionApusthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 137366 →62 ly apart
HR 5644 →100 ly apart
Kap TrA →110 ly apart
Zet Cir →180 ly apart
HD 153389 →200 ly apart
HR 4976 →210 ly apart

Bright stars in Apus

Paradys →mag 3.8
Gam Aps →mag 3.9
Bet Aps →mag 4.2
Del1Aps →mag 4.7
Zet Aps →mag 4.8
Eta Aps →mag 4.9
Eps Aps →mag 5.1
Del2Aps →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook 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.