A-type star · white star

Eta Lib

Eta Lib is a white star in the constellation Libra 149 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,880 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.50× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 149 years ago.

149 lybrightness mag 5.41A6IV

Also catalogued as HR 5848 · HD 140417 · HIP 77060

7,880 K

temperature

5.41

apparent magnitude

12.50× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A6IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

149 years

at light speed from Earth

1.37×

as hot as the Sun

12.50×

the Sun's light output

2.11

absolute magnitude

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Eta LibA-type

Sky regionLibrathis direction

StarZubenelhakrabi15 ly

StarHR 601218 ly

StarHR 593019 ly

StarZubeneschamalistar

StarZubenelgenubistar

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Libra

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Libra

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.