F-type star · yellow-white star

Zeta TrA

Zeta TrA is a yellow-white star in the constellation Triangulum Australe 39.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,150 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1.40× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 40 years ago.

39.5 lybrightness mag 4.90F9V

Also catalogued as HR 6098 · HD 147584 · HIP 80686 · Gliese Gl 624

6,150 K

temperature

4.90

apparent magnitude

1.40× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

40 years

at light speed from Earth

1.07×

as hot as the Sun

1.40×

the Sun's light output

4.48

absolute magnitude

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Zeta TrAF-type

Sky regionTriangulum Australethis direction

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Bright stars in Triangulum Australe

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Triangulum Australe

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.