B-type star · blue-white star

Psi Eri

Psi Eri is a blue-white star in the constellation Eridanus 740 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,775 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 539× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 740 years ago.

740 lybrightness mag 4.80B3V

Also catalogued as HR 1617 · HD 32249 · HIP 23364

12,775 K
temperature
4.80
apparent magnitude
539× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
740 years
at light speed from Earth
2.21×
as hot as the Sun
539×
the Sun's light output
-1.98
absolute magnitude
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Psi EriB-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Eridanus

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.