B-type star · blue-white star

Pi And

Pi And is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 598 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,975 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 539× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 598 years ago.

598 lybrightness mag 4.34B5V

Also catalogued as HR 154 · HD 3369 · HIP 2912

11,975 K
temperature
4.34
apparent magnitude
539× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
598 years
at light speed from Earth
2.07×
as hot as the Sun
539×
the Sun's light output
-1.98
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Pi AndB-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
StarHR 7946 ly
StarHR 7170 ly
StarHD 647673 ly
StarAlpheratzstar
StarMirachstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Andromeda
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Andromeda

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.