Kappa Chamaeleontis
star in the constellation Chamaeleon
Kappa Chamaeleonitis is a single star in the southern constellation of Chamaeleon. Its name is a Bayer designation that is Latinized from κ Chamaeleonitis, and abbreviated Kappa Cha or κ Cha. This object is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.024. The distance to this object is approximately 490 light-years, based on the star's parallax. It is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −2 km/s.
This is an aging K-type giant star with a stellar classification of K4III, having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core then cooled and expanded to its current size of 45 times the Sun's radius. It is a candidate periodic microvariable, with its brightness fluctuating by 0.005 magnitude at the rate of 0.25664 cycles per day.
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