B-type star · blue-white star
Epsilon Cha
Epsilon Cha is a blue-white star in the constellation Chamaeleon 362 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,853 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 120× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 362 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4583 · HD 104174 · HIP 58484
10,853 K
temperature
4.88
apparent magnitude
120× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
362 years
at light speed from Earth
1.88×
as hot as the Sun
120×
the Sun's light output
-0.34
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.