K-type star · orange
Zeta Ara
Zeta Ara is an orange in the constellation Ara 486 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,717 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,092× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 486 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6285 · HD 152786 · HIP 83081 · Gliese GJ 9581
3,717 K
temperature
3.12
apparent magnitude
1,092× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
486 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
1,092×
the Sun's light output
-2.75
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.