B-type star · blue-white star

Psi Per

Psi Per is a blue-white star in the constellation Perseus 583 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,912 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 521× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 583 years ago.

583 lybrightness mag 4.32B5Ve

Also catalogued as HR 1087 · HD 22192 · HIP 16826

10,912 K
temperature
4.32
apparent magnitude
521× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5Ve
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
583 years
at light speed from Earth
1.89×
as hot as the Sun
521×
the Sun's light output
-1.94
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Perseus

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.