K-type star · orange

Delta PsA

Delta PsA is an orange in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 154 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,861 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 154 years ago.

154 lybrightness mag 4.20G8III

Also catalogued as HR 8720 · HD 216763 · HIP 113246

4,861 K
temperature
4.20
apparent magnitude
40.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
154 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
40.63×
the Sun's light output
0.83
absolute magnitude
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Delta PsAK-type
Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction
StarBeta PsA18 ly
StarHD 21864128 ly
StarHR 856331 ly
StarEpsilon PsAstar
StarIota 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.