Eta1 Pictoris
Star in the constellation Pictor
η1 Pictoris , Latinised as Eta1 Pictoris , is a solitary[ 10] star in the southern constellation of Pictor . It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.37.[ 2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 38.35 mas as seen from the Earth,[ 1] the system is located 85 light years from the Sun . The star made its closest approach to the Sun about 1.1 million years ago with a perihelion passage of about 24 ly (7.5 pc).[ 11]
This is an F-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of F5 V[ 3] and it is chromospherically active .[ 3] It is an estimated 2.15[ 6] billion years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 22.7 km/s.[ 5] The star has 1.4[ 6] times the mass of the Sun and about 1.1[ 7] times the Sun's radius . It is radiating 3.7[ 8] times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of roughly 6,631 K.[ 6]
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