Kappa For

HIP 11072; Kappa For DoubleStar For Visible Level 6 Professional/Research - Requires steady seeing

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Physical Properties

Magnitude 5.20

Spectral Type G0Va

Star Color Yellow (B-V 0.60)

Distance 42.4 ly

Position & Identifiers

RA 02h 22m 32.6s

Dec -23° 48' 59.0"

Constellation For

HR 695

HIP 11072

Bayer Kappa

Visibility

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Multiple Star System

Separation 0.5″

Companion Mag 10.2

Position Angle 177°

Star Colors A: Yellow B: Red

Discoverer LAF 27

Eyepiece View

Telescope Eyepiece

80x Dawes: 1.9″ TFOV: 0.6°

Seeing

Scale Realistic = true angular size

Sep: 0.5″ · PA: 177° · N up, E left

Unresolved · Rayleigh: 2.3″ · Dawes: 1.9″ · Eff: 3.1″

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