B-type star · blue-white star

Eta PsA

Eta PsA is a blue-white star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 817 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,489 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 368× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 817 years ago.

817 lybrightness mag 5.43B8/B9V+...

Also catalogued as HR 8386 · HD 209014 · HIP 108661

11,489 K

temperature

5.43

apparent magnitude

368× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8/B9V+...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

817 years

at light speed from Earth

1.99×

as hot as the Sun

368×

the Sun's light output

-1.56

absolute magnitude

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Eta PsAB-type

Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Piscis Austrinus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Piscis Austrinus

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.