F-type star · yellow-white star

Eta Ari

Eta Ari is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aries 94.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,591 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.87× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 94 years ago.

94.2 lybrightness mag 5.23F5V

Also catalogued as HR 646 · HD 13555 · HIP 10306 · Gliese GJ 1043

6,591 K
temperature
5.23
apparent magnitude
5.87× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
94 years
at light speed from Earth
1.14×
as hot as the Sun
5.87×
the Sun's light output
2.93
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aries

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.