A-type star · white star

Beta PsA

Beta PsA is a white star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 143 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,990 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 143 years ago.

143 lybrightness mag 4.29A1V

Also catalogued as HR 8576 · HD 213398 · HIP 111188

9,990 K

temperature

4.29

apparent magnitude

32.12× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

143 years

at light speed from Earth

1.73×

as hot as the Sun

32.12×

the Sun's light output

1.08

absolute magnitude

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Beta PsAA-type

Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction

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Bright stars in Piscis Austrinus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.3To 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.