F-type star · yellow-white star
61 Psc
61 Psc is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pisces 186 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,295 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 186 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 217 · HD 4568 · HIP 3730
6,295 K
temperature
6.51
apparent magnitude
7.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
186 years
at light speed from Earth
1.09×
as hot as the Sun
7.05×
the Sun's light output
2.73
absolute magnitude
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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.