K-type star · orange
Eta² For
Eta² For is an orange in the constellation Fornax 450 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,999 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 70.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 450 years ago.
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
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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.