A-type star · white star

Pi¹ Col

Pi¹ Col is a white star in the constellation Columba 272 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,823 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.01× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 272 years ago.

272 lybrightness mag 6.15Am

Also catalogued as HR 2171 · HD 42078 · HIP 28957

7,823 K
temperature
6.15
apparent magnitude
21.01× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Am
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
272 years
at light speed from Earth
1.36×
as hot as the Sun
21.01×
the Sun's light output
1.54
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Columba

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.