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.


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