A-type star · white star
Zibal
Zibal is a white star in the constellation Eridanus 110 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,923 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 110 years ago.
Also catalogued as Zeta Eri · HR 984 · HD 20320 · HIP 15197
7,923 K
temperature
4.80
apparent magnitude
11.86× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
110 years
at light speed from Earth
1.37×
as hot as the Sun
11.86×
the Sun's light output
2.17
absolute magnitude
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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.