A-type star · white star
Alpha Pic
Alpha Pic is a white star in the constellation Pictor 96.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,974 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 97 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2550 · HD 50241 · HIP 32607 · Gliese Gl 248
7,974 K
temperature
3.24
apparent magnitude
38.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
97 years
at light speed from Earth
1.38×
as hot as the Sun
38.62×
the Sun's light output
0.88
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.