K-type star · orange

Eta Ret

Eta Ret is an orange in the constellation Reticulum 385 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,853 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 97.10× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 385 years ago.

385 lybrightness mag 5.24G7III

Also catalogued as HR 1395 · HD 28093 · HIP 20384

4,853 K
temperature
5.24
apparent magnitude
97.10× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
385 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
97.10×
the Sun's light output
-0.12
absolute magnitude
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Eta RetK-type
Sky regionReticulumthis direction
StarHR 143528 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Reticulum

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.