B-type star · blue-white star

Psi³ Aqr

Psi³ Aqr is a blue-white star in the constellation Aquarius 262 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,408 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 262 years ago.

262 lybrightness mag 4.99A0V

Also catalogued as HR 8865 · HD 219832 · HIP 115115

10,408 K
temperature
4.99
apparent magnitude
56.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
262 years
at light speed from Earth
1.80×
as hot as the Sun
56.55×
the Sun's light output
0.47
absolute magnitude
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Psi³ AqrB-type
Sky regionAquariusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aquarius

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.