B-type star · blue-white star

Epsilon PsA

Epsilon PsA is a blue-white star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 487 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,658 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 413× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 487 years ago.

487 lybrightness mag 4.18B8V

Also catalogued as HR 8628 · HD 214748 · HIP 111954

11,658 K
temperature
4.18
apparent magnitude
413× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
487 years
at light speed from Earth
2.02×
as hot as the Sun
413×
the Sun's light output
-1.69
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon PsAB-type
Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction
StarHR 867452 ly
StarLambda PsA53 ly
StarZeta PsA58 ly
StarDelta PsAstar
StarBeta PsAstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Piscis Austrinus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.2To 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.