Star profile
Zeta 1 Reticulum
Nearby starWhat is Zeta 1 Reticulum
Zeta-1 Reticuli is a yellow G-type star just 39 light-years away, nearly a twin of the Sun in temperature and mass, set in the small southern Reticle. With Zeta-2 it forms one of the closest known pairs of truly Sun-like stars: two genuine solar analogues, separated by thousands of astronomical units and bound in a slow gravitational embrace. The light arriving tonight set out in the late 1980s, when walls were falling and the first links of the Internet were being woven.
Where it is and when to see it
Zeta 1 Reticulum lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is September: 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 1 Reticulum
- Constellation
- Reticulum
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.53
- Distance
- 39.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 49.439° · Dec -62.575°
- Catalogue
- HIP 15330 · HD 20766
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Other stars in Reticulum
Reticulum has 16 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Reticulum3.33
- Beta Reticulum3.84
- Epsilon Reticulum4.44
- Zeta 2 Reticulum5.24
- Eta Reticulum5.24
- HIP 198055.45
- HIP 208255.74
- HIP 212535.79