B-type star · blue-white star

Eta Crt

Eta Crt is a blue-white star in the constellation Crater 251 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,408 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 251 years ago.

251 lybrightness mag 5.17A0V

Also catalogued as HR 4567 · HD 103632 · HIP 58188

10,408 K
temperature
5.17
apparent magnitude
44.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
251 years
at light speed from Earth
1.80×
as hot as the Sun
44.26×
the Sun's light output
0.73
absolute magnitude
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Eta CrtB-type
Sky regionCraterthis direction
StarHR 450621 ly
StarHR 465532 ly
StarKappa Crt42 ly
StarDelta Crtstar
StarGamma Crtstar
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Bright stars in Crater
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To 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.