K-type star · orange

Zeta Crt

Zeta Crt is an orange in the constellation Crater 353 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,846 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 133× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 353 years ago.

353 lybrightness mag 4.71G8III

Also catalogued as HR 4514 · HD 102070 · HIP 57283

4,846 K
temperature
4.71
apparent magnitude
133× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
353 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
133×
the Sun's light output
-0.46
absolute magnitude
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Zeta CrtK-type
Sky regionCraterthis direction
StarEpsilon Crv55 ly
StarBeta Crt56 ly
StarHR 445158 ly
StarDelta Crtstar
StarGamma Crtstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Crater
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crater

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.