K-type star · orange

Zeta Cae

Zeta Cae is an orange in the constellation Caelum 430 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,578 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 430 years ago.

430 lybrightness mag 6.35K0III

Also catalogued as HR 1539 · HD 30608 · HIP 22280

4,578 K
temperature
6.35
apparent magnitude
43.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
430 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
43.61×
the Sun's light output
0.75
absolute magnitude
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Zeta CaeK-type
Sky regionCaelumthis direction
StarHR 147623 ly
StarHR 175857 ly
StarMouhoun60 ly
StarAlpha Caestar
StarGamma¹ Caestar
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Caelum

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.