B-type star · blue-white star

Zeta Cha

Zeta Cha is a blue-white star in the constellation Chamaeleon 572 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,273 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 251× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 572 years ago.

572 lybrightness mag 5.07B5V

Also catalogued as HR 3860 · HD 83979 · HIP 46928

12,273 K

temperature

5.07

apparent magnitude

251× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

572 years

at light speed from Earth

2.13×

as hot as the Sun

251×

the Sun's light output

-1.15

absolute magnitude

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Zeta ChaB-type

Sky regionChamaeleonthis direction

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Bright stars in Chamaeleon

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Chamaeleon

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.