F-type star · yellow-white star

Zeta Hor

Zeta Hor is a yellow-white star in the constellation Horologium 160 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,822 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 17.30× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 160 years ago.

160 lybrightness mag 5.21F4IV

Also catalogued as HR 802 · HD 16920 · HIP 12484

6,822 K
temperature
5.21
apparent magnitude
17.30× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F4IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
160 years
at light speed from Earth
1.18×
as hot as the Sun
17.30×
the Sun's light output
1.75
absolute magnitude
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Zeta HorF-type
Sky regionHorologiumthis direction
StarEta Hor13 ly
StarPhi Eri14 ly
StarHD 1289415 ly
StarAlpha Horstar
StarDelta Horstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Horologium
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Horologium

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.