A-type star · white star

Eta Tuc

Eta Tuc is a white star in the constellation Tucana 155 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,434 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 155 years ago.

155 lybrightness mag 5.00A1V

Also catalogued as HR 9062 · HD 224392 · HIP 118121

9,434 K
temperature
5.00
apparent magnitude
19.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
155 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
19.61×
the Sun's light output
1.62
absolute magnitude
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Eta TucA-type
Sky regionTucanathis direction
StarBeta³ Tuc12 ly
StarHR 899417 ly
StarBeta² Tuc18 ly
StarLang-Exsterstar
StarGamma Tucstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Tucana
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Tucana

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.