Star profile
Zeta Indus
What is Zeta Indus
Zeta Indi is an aging orange K5 III giant some 413 light-years away in the lonely southern constellation of the Indian. After exhausting the hydrogen at its core, its envelope has swollen to forty-five solar radii and pours out 446 times the Sun's light with a cool 3,963 K glow. A magnanimous ember shining far from the most travelled constellations of the sky.
Where it is and when to see it
Zeta Indus lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is July: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for Zeta Indus
- Constellation
- Indus
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.90
- Distance
- 412.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 312.371° · Dec -46.227°
- Catalogue
- HIP 102790 · HD 198048
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Other stars in Indus
Indus has 19 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Indus3.11
- Beta Indus3.67
- Theta Indus4.39
- Delta Indus4.40
- Eta Indus4.51
- Epsilon Indus4.69
- Iota Indus5.06
- Mu Indus5.17