K-type star · orange

Tau Psc

Tau Psc is an orange in the constellation Pisces 169 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,532 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 169 years ago.

169 lybrightness mag 4.51K0III-IV...

Also catalogued as HR 352 · HD 7106 · HIP 5586

4,532 K
temperature
4.51
apparent magnitude
36.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III-IV...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
169 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
36.64×
the Sun's light output
0.94
absolute magnitude
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Tau PscK-type
Sky regionPiscesthis direction
StarEpsilon And22 ly
StarHR 39622 ly
StarHR 30325 ly
StarAlphergstar
StarGamma Pscstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pisces
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To 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.