A-type star · white star

Eta Aps

138 lybrightness mag 4.89A2m...

Also catalogued as HR 5303 · HD 123998 · HIP 69896

7,844 K

temperature

4.89

apparent magnitude

17.28× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2m...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

138 years

at light speed from Earth

1.36×

as hot as the Sun

17.28×

the Sun's light output

1.76

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Eta ApsA-type

Sky regionApusthis direction

Nearest stars

Karaka →13 ly apart
Pi Cha →22 ly apart
Gam Aps →24 ly apart
HR 2848 →26 ly apart
Bet Aps →27 ly apart
HR 4966 →28 ly apart

Bright stars in Apus

Paradys →mag 3.8
Gam Aps →mag 3.9
Bet Aps →mag 4.2
Del1Aps →mag 4.7
Zet Aps →mag 4.8
Eps Aps →mag 5.1
Del2Aps →mag 5.3
Iot Aps →mag 5.4

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Apus

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.