ζ microscopii, latinised as zeta microscopii, is a solitary, yellow-white hued star in the southern constellation of microscopium. it is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.31. based upon an annual parallax shift of 28.27 mas as seen from the earth, it is 115 light years from the sun. the star is moving away from the sun with a radial velocity of +4.6 km/s.