A-type star · white star

Psi Sco

Psi Sco is a white star in the constellation Scorpius 156 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,155 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 156 years ago.

156 lybrightness mag 4.93A3IV

Also catalogued as HR 6031 · HD 145570 · HIP 79375

9,155 K

temperature

4.93

apparent magnitude

21.14× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

156 years

at light speed from Earth

1.59×

as hot as the Sun

21.14×

the Sun's light output

1.54

absolute magnitude

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Psi ScoA-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scorpius

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.