A-type star · white star
Eta Tel
Eta Tel is a white star in the constellation Telescopium 157 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,882 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 157 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7329 · HD 181296 · HIP 95261
9,882 K
temperature
5.03
apparent magnitude
19.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
157 years
at light speed from Earth
1.71×
as hot as the Sun
19.70×
the Sun's light output
1.61
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.