A-type star · white star

Eta Oct

Eta Oct is a white star in the constellation Octans 344 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,028 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 344 years ago.

344 lybrightness mag 6.19A1V

Also catalogued as HR 4312 · HD 96124 · HIP 53702

9,028 K

temperature

6.19

apparent magnitude

32.39× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

344 years

at light speed from Earth

1.56×

as hot as the Sun

32.39×

the Sun's light output

1.07

absolute magnitude

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Eta OctA-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Octans

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.