F-type star · yellow-white star

Eta Ant

Eta Ant is a yellow-white star in the constellation Antlia 109 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,462 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.82× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 109 years ago.

109 lybrightness mag 5.23A8IV

Also catalogued as HR 3947 · HD 86629 · HIP 48926

7,462 K

temperature

5.23

apparent magnitude

7.82× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A8IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

109 years

at light speed from Earth

1.29×

as hot as the Sun

7.82×

the Sun's light output

2.62

absolute magnitude

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Eta AntF-type

Sky regionAntliathis direction

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Bright stars in Antlia

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To 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.