K-type star · orange

Eta Mic

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Eta MicK-type

Sky regionMicroscopiumthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8124 →68 ly apart
HR 8236 →92 ly apart
HR 7817 →120 ly apart
HR 7970 →130 ly apart
HR 7971 →130 ly apart
HD 191732 →150 ly apart

Bright stars in Microscopium

Gam Mic →mag 4.7
Eps Mic →mag 4.7
The1Mic →mag 4.8
Alp Mic →mag 4.9
Iot Mic →mag 5.1
Nu Mic →mag 5.1
Zet Mic →mag 5.3
Del Mic →mag 5.7

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.