K-type star · orange

Eta Mic

Eta Mic is an orange in the constellation Microscopium 712 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,034 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 250× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 712 years ago.

712 lybrightness mag 5.55K3III

Also catalogued as HR 8069 · HD 200702 · HIP 104177

4,034 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
250× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
712 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
250×
the Sun's light output
-1.15
absolute magnitude
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Eta MicK-type
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Microscopium

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.