B-type star · blue-white star

Iota PsA

Iota PsA is a blue-white star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 204 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,838 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 204 years ago.

204 lybrightness mag 4.35B9.5V

Also catalogued as HR 8305 · HD 206742 · HIP 107380

10,838 K

temperature

4.35

apparent magnitude

62.12× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

204 years

at light speed from Earth

1.88×

as hot as the Sun

62.12×

the Sun's light output

0.37

absolute magnitude

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Iota PsAB-type

Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction

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Bright stars in Piscis Austrinus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Piscis Austrinus

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.