A-type star · white star

Eta Hor

Eta Hor is a white star in the constellation Horologium 149 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,532 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 149 years ago.

149 lybrightness mag 5.30A6V

Also catalogued as HR 778 · HD 16555 · HIP 12225

7,532 K
temperature
5.30
apparent magnitude
13.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
149 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
13.72×
the Sun's light output
2.01
absolute magnitude
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Eta HorA-type
Sky regionHorologiumthis direction
StarPhi Eri10 ly
StarZeta Hor13 ly
StarHD 1289416 ly
StarAlpha Horstar
StarDelta Horstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Horologium
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Horologium

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.