K-type star · orange

Zet Ara

486 lybrightness mag 3.12K5III

Also catalogued as HR 6285 · HD 152786 · HIP 83081 · Gliese GJ 9581

3,717 K

temperature

3.12

apparent magnitude

1,092× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

486 years

at light speed from Earth

0.64×

as hot as the Sun

1,092×

the Sun's light output

-2.75

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Zet AraK-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6289 →58 ly apart
HD 155951 →62 ly apart
HR 6253 →63 ly apart
Kap Ara →63 ly apart
HR 6236 →67 ly apart
HR 6083 →73 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp Ara →mag 2.8
Gam Ara →mag 3.3
Del Ara →mag 3.6
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1
1Sig Ara →mag 4.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.1To 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.