K-type star · orange

Eta Ara

299 lybrightness mag 3.77K5III

Also catalogued as HR 6229 · HD 151249 · HIP 82363

3,703 K

temperature

3.77

apparent magnitude

228× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

299 years

at light speed from Earth

0.64×

as hot as the Sun

228×

the Sun's light output

-1.04

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Eta AraK-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

Iot2Nor →33 ly apart
HD 144481 →35 ly apart
HR 5951 →43 ly apart
HR 6073 →46 ly apart
Zet Aps →49 ly apart
HR 6368 →54 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp Ara →mag 2.8
Zet Ara →mag 3.1
Gam Ara →mag 3.3
Del Ara →mag 3.6
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1
1Sig Ara →mag 4.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

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.