F-type star · yellow-white star

Eta Cru

64.4 lybrightness mag 4.14F2III

Also catalogued as HR 4616 · HD 105211 · HIP 59072 · Gliese Gl 455.2

7,141 K

temperature

4.14

apparent magnitude

7.50× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

64 years

at light speed from Earth

1.24×

as hot as the Sun

7.50×

the Sun's light output

2.66

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Eta CruF-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4989 →12 ly apart
HR 4102 →17 ly apart
Xami →20 ly apart
HR 4134 →20 ly apart
Alp Cha →24 ly apart
HR 4413 →25 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Gacrux →mag 1.6
Imai →mag 2.8
Ginan →mag 3.6
Mu 1Cru →mag 4.0
Zet Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Lam Cru →mag 4.6
Iot Cru →mag 4.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crux

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.