B-type star · blue-white star

Lambda PsA

Lambda PsA is a blue-white star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 501 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,938 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 136× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 501 years ago.

501 lybrightness mag 5.45B7V

Also catalogued as HR 8478 · HD 210934 · HIP 109789

11,938 K
temperature
5.45
apparent magnitude
136× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
501 years
at light speed from Earth
2.07×
as hot as the Sun
136×
the Sun's light output
-0.48
absolute magnitude
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Lambda PsAB-type
Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction
StarEpsilon PsA53 ly
StarHR 849754 ly
StarHR 849275 ly
StarDelta PsAstar
StarBeta PsAstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Piscis Austrinus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To 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.