B-type star · blue-white star

Zet Cru

358 lybrightness mag 4.06B2.5V

Also catalogued as HR 4679 · HD 106983 · HIP 60009

12,860 K

temperature

4.06

apparent magnitude

249× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

358 years

at light speed from Earth

2.23×

as hot as the Sun

249×

the Sun's light output

-1.14

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Zet CruB-type

Sky regionCruxthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4549 →20 ly apart
HR 4814 →26 ly apart
HR 4604 →30 ly apart
HD 104900 →33 ly apart
Bet Mus →34 ly apart
HR 4485 →34 ly apart

Bright stars in Crux

Gacrux →mag 1.6
Imai →mag 2.8
Ginan →mag 3.6
Mu 1Cru →mag 4.0
Eta Cru →mag 4.1
The1Cru →mag 4.3
Lam Cru →mag 4.6
Iot Cru →mag 4.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Crux

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.