B-type star · blue-white star
Phi Eri
Phi Eri is a blue-white star in the constellation Eridanus 154 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,920 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 72.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 154 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 674 · HD 14228 · HIP 10602
11,920 K
temperature
3.56
apparent magnitude
72.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
154 years
at light speed from Earth
2.07×
as hot as the Sun
72.85×
the Sun's light output
0.19
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.