K-type star · orange

Zeta Aps

Zeta Aps is an orange in the constellation Apus 297 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,321 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 90.28× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 297 years ago.

297 lybrightness mag 4.76K1III

Also catalogued as HR 6417 · HD 156277 · HIP 84969

4,321 K
temperature
4.76
apparent magnitude
90.28× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
297 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
90.28×
the Sun's light output
-0.04
absolute magnitude
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Zeta ApsK-type
Sky regionApusthis direction
StarHR 636829 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Apus

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.