Star in the constellation Capricornus
Kappa Capricorni (κ Cap, κ Capricorni) is a solitary star in the constellation Capricornus . It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.73. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 11.09 mas as seen from the Earth, the star is located about 294 light years from the Sun .
This is a yellow-hued, evolved , G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G8 III. There is a 91% probability that it is currently on the horizontal branch , rather than the red giant branch . As such, it is a red clump giant with an estimated 2.43 times the mass of the Sun and has expanded to 13.28 times the radius of the Sun . The star is about 1.2 billion years old and has a projected rotational velocity that is too small to be measured. It radiates 107 times the solar luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,096 K.
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