K-type star · orange
Beta Phe
Beta Phe is an orange in the constellation Phoenix. Its surface is about 5,037 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 409,260,660× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 3.32G8IIIvar
Also catalogued as HR 322 · HD 6595 · HIP 5165
5,037 K
temperature
3.32
apparent magnitude
409,260,660× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
409,260,660×
the Sun's light output
-16.68
absolute magnitude
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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.