K-type star · orange

Eta² Pic

Eta² Pic is an orange in the constellation Pictor 444 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,818 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 154× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 444 years ago.

444 lybrightness mag 5.05M2IIIvar

Also catalogued as HR 1663 · HD 33042 · HIP 23649

3,818 K
temperature
5.05
apparent magnitude
154× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
444 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
154×
the Sun's light output
-0.62
absolute magnitude
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Eta² PicK-type
Sky regionPictorthis direction
StarHR 181358 ly
StarHR 200865 ly
StarHR 143366 ly
StarAlpha Picstar
StarGamma Picstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pictor
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pictor

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.