B-type star · blue-white star

Gamma PsA

Gamma PsA is a blue-white star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 215 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,612 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.46× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 215 years ago.

215 lybrightness mag 4.46A0III

Also catalogued as HR 8695 · HD 216336 · HIP 112948 · Gliese GJ 9800A

10,612 K
temperature
4.46
apparent magnitude
62.46× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
215 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
62.46×
the Sun's light output
0.36
absolute magnitude
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Gamma PsAB-type
Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction
StarHR 86809.4 ly
StarHR 873229 ly
StarSigma² Gru31 ly
StarEpsilon PsAstar
StarDelta PsAstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Piscis Austrinus
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To 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.