F-type star · yellow-white star
16 Psc
16 Psc is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pisces 101 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,630 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.47× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 101 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8954 · HD 221950 · HIP 116495
6,630 K
temperature
5.68
apparent magnitude
4.47× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6Vbwvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
101 years
at light speed from Earth
1.15×
as hot as the Sun
4.47×
the Sun's light output
3.23
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.