B-type star · blue-white star

Zet Cha

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Zet ChaB-type

Sky regionChamaeleonthis direction

Nearest stars

Mu 2Cha →53 ly apart
HR 3543 →77 ly apart
HR 4387 →89 ly apart
HR 4804 →110 ly apart
HR 4349 →110 ly apart
Eps Men →120 ly apart

Bright stars in Chamaeleon

Alp Cha →mag 4.0
Gam Cha →mag 4.1
Bet Cha →mag 4.2
The Cha →mag 4.3
Del2Cha →mag 4.5
Eps Cha →mag 4.9
Kap Cha →mag 5.0
Iot Cha →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

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.