K-type star · orange

Eta2For

450 lybrightness mag 5.92K0III

Also catalogued as HR 848 · HD 17793 · HIP 13225

4,999 K

temperature

5.92

apparent magnitude

70.99× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

450 years

at light speed from Earth

0.87×

as hot as the Sun

70.99×

the Sun's light output

0.22

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Eta2ForK-type

Sky regionFornaxthis direction

Nearest stars

Eta3For →9.6 ly apart
HR 742 →36 ly apart
HR 970 →42 ly apart
HR 805 →44 ly apart
Eta1For →48 ly apart
HR 903 →51 ly apart

Bright stars in Fornax

Dalim →mag 3.8
Bet For →mag 4.5
Nu For →mag 4.7
Ome For →mag 5.0
Del For →mag 5.0
Phi For →mag 5.1
Kap For →mag 5.2
Mu For →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Fornax

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.