A-type star · white star

Pi Ser

Pi Ser is a white star in the constellation Serpens 179 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,370 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 179 years ago.

179 lybrightness mag 4.82A3V

Also catalogued as HR 5972 · HD 143894 · HIP 78554

9,370 K
temperature
4.82
apparent magnitude
30.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
179 years
at light speed from Earth
1.62×
as hot as the Sun
30.96×
the Sun's light output
1.12
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Serpens

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.