A-type star · white star

Phi And

Phi And is a white star in the constellation Andromeda 717 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,978 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 832× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 717 years ago.

717 lybrightness mag 4.26B7III

Also catalogued as HR 335 · HD 6811 · HIP 5434

9,978 K
temperature
4.26
apparent magnitude
832× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
717 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
832×
the Sun's light output
-2.45
absolute magnitude
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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.