B-type star · blue-white star
53 Psc
53 Psc is a blue-white star in the constellation Pisces 1,039 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,409 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 389× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,039 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 155 · HD 3379 · HIP 2903
12,409 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
389× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2.5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,039 years
at light speed from Earth
2.15×
as hot as the Sun
389×
the Sun's light output
-1.63
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.