K-type star · orange

Epsilon Ant

Epsilon Ant is an orange in the constellation Antlia 711 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,937 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 649× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 711 years ago.

711 lybrightness mag 4.51K3III

Also catalogued as HR 3765 · HD 82150 · HIP 46515

3,937 K

temperature

4.51

apparent magnitude

649× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

711 years

at light speed from Earth

0.68×

as hot as the Sun

649×

the Sun's light output

-2.18

absolute magnitude

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Epsilon AntK-type

Sky regionAntliathis direction

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Bright stars in Antlia

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Antlia

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.