B-type star · blue-white star

Zet Cir

1,274 lybrightness mag 6.09B3Vn

Also catalogued as HR 5539 · HD 131058 · HIP 72965

10,956 K

temperature

6.09

apparent magnitude

487× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,274 years

at light speed from Earth

1.90×

as hot as the Sun

487×

the Sun's light output

-1.87

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Zet CirB-type

Sky regionCircinusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5320 →92 ly apart
HR 5500 →130 ly apart
HR 5644 →140 ly apart
HD 137366 →150 ly apart
Kap TrA →150 ly apart
Kap1Aps →180 ly apart

Bright stars in Circinus

Xami →mag 3.2
Bet Cir →mag 4.1
Gam Cir →mag 4.5
Eps Cir →mag 4.8
Del Cir →mag 5.0
The Cir →mag 5.1
Eta Cir →mag 5.2

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Circinus

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.