A-type star · white star

59 Psc

59 Psc is a white star in the constellation Pisces 328 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,658 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 328 years ago.

328 lybrightness mag 6.11F0Vn

Also catalogued as HR 214 · HD 4490 · HIP 3685

7,658 K

temperature

6.11

apparent magnitude

31.71× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

328 years

at light speed from Earth

1.33×

as hot as the Sun

31.71×

the Sun's light output

1.10

absolute magnitude

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Sky regionPiscesthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.1To 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.