A-type star · white star
Eta Cap
Eta Cap is a white star in the constellation Capricornus 161 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,411 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 25.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 161 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8060 · HD 200499 · HIP 104019 · Gliese Gl 816.2A
8,411 K
temperature
4.82
apparent magnitude
25.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
161 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
25.19×
the Sun's light output
1.35
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.