F-type star · yellow-white star

Zeta Oct

Zeta Oct is a yellow-white star in the constellation Octans 162 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,424 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 162 years ago.

162 lybrightness mag 5.43F0III

Also catalogued as HR 3678 · HD 79837 · HIP 43908

7,424 K
temperature
5.43
apparent magnitude
14.51× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
162 years
at light speed from Earth
1.29×
as hot as the Sun
14.51×
the Sun's light output
1.95
absolute magnitude
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Zeta OctF-type
Sky regionOctansthis direction
StarTheta Cha24 ly
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StarHR 450929 ly
StarNu Octstar
StarBeta Octstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Octans
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Octans

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.