B-type star · blue-white star
26 Psc
26 Psc is a blue-white star in the constellation Pisces 414 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,031 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 414 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 9048 · HD 224103 · HIP 117927
11,031 K
temperature
6.22
apparent magnitude
45.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
414 years
at light speed from Earth
1.91×
as hot as the Sun
45.71×
the Sun's light output
0.70
absolute magnitude
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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.