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Single star in the constellation Carina
This article is about k Carinae. For K Carinae, see HR 4138.
HD 81101 is a single star in the southern constellation of Carina. It has the Bayer designationk Carinae, while HD 81101 is the star's designation in the Henry Draper catalogue. The star has a yellow hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.79. It is located at a distance of approximately 225 light years from the Sun based on parallax. This object is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +51 km/s, having come to within 22 light-years of the Sun some 1.4 million years ago.
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