A-type star · white star
Phi Oct
Phi Oct is a white star in the constellation Octans 194 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,619 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 194 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6829 · HD 167468 · HIP 90133
9,619 K
temperature
5.47
apparent magnitude
19.99× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
194 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
19.99×
the Sun's light output
1.60
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.