B-type star · blue-white star

Phi Phe

Phi Phe is a blue-white star in the constellation Phoenix 307 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,941 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 68.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 307 years ago.

307 lybrightness mag 5.12A3V

Also catalogued as HR 558 · HD 11753 · HIP 8882

10,941 K

temperature

5.12

apparent magnitude

68.99× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

307 years

at light speed from Earth

1.90×

as hot as the Sun

68.99×

the Sun's light output

0.25

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To 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.