A-type star · white star

Eta¹ CrA

Eta¹ CrA is a white star in the constellation Corona Australis 336 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,721 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 60.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 336 years ago.

336 lybrightness mag 5.46A2Vn

Also catalogued as HR 7062 · HD 173715 · HIP 92308

8,721 K
temperature
5.46
apparent magnitude
60.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
336 years
at light speed from Earth
1.51×
as hot as the Sun
60.59×
the Sun's light output
0.39
absolute magnitude
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Eta¹ CrAA-type
Sky regionCorona Australisthis direction
StarHR 706526 ly
StarHR 698634 ly
StarHR 733437 ly
StarBeta CrAstar
StarMeridianastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Corona Australis
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Corona Australis

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.