M-type star · red

Eta Scl

Eta Scl is a red in the constellation Sculptor 452 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,602 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 190× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 452 years ago.

452 lybrightness mag 4.86M2/M3III

Also catalogued as HR 105 · HD 2429 · HIP 2210

3,602 K
temperature
4.86
apparent magnitude
190× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2/M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
452 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
190×
the Sun's light output
-0.85
absolute magnitude
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Eta SclM-type
Sky regionSculptorthis direction
StarHR 5751 ly
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StarHR 910265 ly
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Bright stars in Sculptor
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sculptor

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.