K-type star · orange dwarf

Kapteyn's Star

12.8 lybrightness mag 8.86M0V

Also catalogued as HD 33793 · HIP 24186 · Gliese Gl 191

3,730 K
temperature
8.86
apparent magnitude
0.004× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
13 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
0.004×
the Sun's light output
10.90
absolute magnitude
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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.