K-type star · orange
Kaus Borealis
Also catalogued as 22Lam Sgr · HR 6913 · HD 169916 · HIP 90496 · Gliese Gl 713.1
4,684 K
temperature
2.82
apparent magnitude
37.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IIIb
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
78 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
37.26×
the Sun's light output
0.92
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.