G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
Psi Ser
Psi Ser is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Serpens 47.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,657 K, and it shines at 0.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 48 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5853 · HD 140538 · HIP 77052 · Gliese Gl 596.1A
5,657 K
temperature
5.86
apparent magnitude
0.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
48 years
at light speed from Earth
0.98×
as hot as the Sun
0.85×
the Sun's light output
5.03
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.