K-type star · orange

Chi Phe

Chi Phe is an orange in the constellation Phoenix 375 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,838 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 100× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 375 years ago.

375 lybrightness mag 5.15K5III

Also catalogued as HR 602 · HD 12524 · HIP 9459

3,838 K

temperature

5.15

apparent magnitude

100× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

375 years

at light speed from Earth

0.66×

as hot as the Sun

100×

the Sun's light output

-0.15

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Phoenix

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.