K-type star · orange

2 Psc

2 Psc is an orange in the constellation Pisces 299 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,786 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 299 years ago.

299 lybrightness mag 5.43K1III:

Also catalogued as HR 8742 · HD 217264 · HIP 113521

4,786 K
temperature
5.43
apparent magnitude
49.25× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
299 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
49.25×
the Sun's light output
0.62
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pisces

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.