K-type star · orange

3 Psc

3 Psc is an orange in the constellation Pisces 586 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,018 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 91.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 586 years ago.

586 lybrightness mag 6.22G4III

Also catalogued as HR 8750 · HD 217428 · HIP 113610

5,018 K

temperature

6.22

apparent magnitude

91.29× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G4III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

586 years

at light speed from Earth

0.87×

as hot as the Sun

91.29×

the Sun's light output

-0.05

absolute magnitude

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3 PscK-type

Sky regionPiscesthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pisces

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.