F-type star · yellow-white star
Pi Cha
Pi Cha is a yellow-white star in the constellation Chamaeleon 135 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,089 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 135 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4479 · HD 101132 · HIP 56675
7,089 K
temperature
5.64
apparent magnitude
8.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
135 years
at light speed from Earth
1.23×
as hot as the Sun
8.33×
the Sun's light output
2.55
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.