F-type star · yellow-white star

Tau PsA

Tau PsA is a yellow-white star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 59.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,439 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 60 years ago.

59.6 lybrightness mag 4.94F6V

Also catalogued as HR 8447 · HD 210302 · HIP 109422 · Gliese Gl 849.1

6,439 K
temperature
4.94
apparent magnitude
3.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
60 years
at light speed from Earth
1.12×
as hot as the Sun
3.08×
the Sun's light output
3.63
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To 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.