Kappa Chamaeleontis

Kappa Chamaeleonitis (k Cha), is a star located in the constellation Chamaeleon. Kappa Chamaeleontis is also known as HR 4605, and HD 104902. The star is located at Right Ascension 12h 4m 46sec and Declination -76 deg 31 arcmin 09 arcsec.

Kappa Chamaeleontis is an K4III giant star with an effective temperature of 4200 Kelvin. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +5.04, and an absolute visual magnitude of -.614. It is located 135 parsecs, (440 light years) from the sun and has a mass of 1.2 solar masses.

References

Chamaeleon constellation

Stars (list)

Bayer	α β γ δ¹ δ² ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ¹ μ² ν π

Variable	R T Z RS RZ CT CU DK DR DX DY

HR	3393 3543 3695 4170 4268 4385 4397 4509 4649 4976 5188

HD	63454 86320 97300 113694 115088 116852

Other	ChaHα8 OTS 44 SCR 1138-7721

Star clusters

Open	Eta Chamaeleontis cluster

Molecular clouds

Nebulae

HH	HH 54

Planetary	NGC 3195

Galaxies

NGC	2915 3149 3620

Other

Cha 110913-773444
GRB 990510
GRB 011121

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