B-type star · blue-white star

Eta Cha

310 lybrightness mag 5.46B9IV

Also catalogued as HR 3502 · HD 75416 · HIP 42637

11,590 K

temperature

5.46

apparent magnitude

51.43× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

310 years

at light speed from Earth

2.01×

as hot as the Sun

51.43×

the Sun's light output

0.57

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Eta ChaB-type

Sky regionChamaeleonthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3524 →6.9 ly apart
Kap Men →48 ly apart
HR 3721 →48 ly apart
HR 3720 →49 ly apart
Del1Cha →50 ly apart
The Men →51 ly apart

Bright stars in Chamaeleon

Alp Cha →mag 4.0
Gam Cha →mag 4.1
Bet Cha →mag 4.2
The Cha →mag 4.3
Del2Cha →mag 4.5
Eps Cha →mag 4.9
Kap Cha →mag 5.0
Zet Cha →mag 5.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Chamaeleon

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.