Kappa2 Apodis

Kappa2 Apodis (κ2 Apodis) is the Bayer designation for a double star in the southern circumpolar constellation of Apus.

It is located at a distance of roughly 780 light-years (240 parsecs) from Earth, based upon parallax measurements with a 7% margin of error.

The pair have a combined apparent visual magnitude of +5.65,[2] which makes the system faintly visible to the naked eye.

The brighter star has a stellar classification of B7 III-IV, with the luminosity class of III-IV suggesting that it may lie in an intermediate stage between a subgiant and a giant star.

[7] The faint companion is a K-type main sequence star with a classification of K0 V. It has a visual magnitude of 12.5 and an angular separation of 15 arcseconds from the brighter member.