G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

55 Eri

55 Eri is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Eridanus 2,132 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,797 K, and it shines at 1,509× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,132 years ago.

2,132 lybrightness mag 5.98F4IIIp (Sr)

Also catalogued as HR 1505 · HD 30020 · HIP 21986

5,797 K

temperature

5.98

apparent magnitude

1,509× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F4IIIp (Sr)

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,132 years

at light speed from Earth

1.00×

as hot as the Sun

1,509×

the Sun's light output

-3.10

absolute magnitude

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55 EriG-type

Sky regionEridanusthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Eridanus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Eridanus

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.