K-type star · orange
62 Psc
62 Psc is an orange in the constellation Pisces 579 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,506 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 118× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 579 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 221 · HD 4627 · HIP 3760
4,506 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
118× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
579 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
118×
the Sun's light output
-0.33
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.