Eta2_Pictoris
Eta2 Pictoris
Star in the constellation Pictor
η2 Pictoris, Latinised as Eta2 Pictoris, is a solitary[8] star in the southern constellation of Pictor. It is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.02.[2] With an annual parallax shift of 7.8 mas as seen from the Earth,[1] it is located around 418 light years from the Sun. It is a member of the HR 1614 moving group of stars that share a common motion through space.[6]
This is an evolved K-type giant star with a stellar classification of K5 III,[3] having exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core, then cooled and expanded off the main sequence. At present it has 41[1] times the girth of the Sun. It is radiating an estimated 363.5 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,136 K.[9] This is a member of the old disk population and is a suspected variable star.[10]