B-type star · blue-white star

Sigma Psc

Sigma Psc is a blue-white star in the constellation Pisces 434 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,695 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 97.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 434 years ago.

434 lybrightness mag 5.50B9.5V

Also catalogued as HR 291 · HD 6118 · HIP 4889

10,695 K
temperature
5.50
apparent magnitude
97.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
434 years
at light speed from Earth
1.85×
as hot as the Sun
97.19×
the Sun's light output
-0.12
absolute magnitude
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Sigma PscB-type
Sky regionPiscesthis direction
Star82 Psc49 ly
StarHR 37950 ly
StarHR 35659 ly
StarAlphergstar
StarGamma Pscstar
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook 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.