B-type star · blue-white star

Psi Cen

Psi Cen is a blue-white star in the constellation Centaurus 259 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,516 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 132× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 259 years ago.

259 lybrightness mag 4.05A0IV

Also catalogued as HR 5367 · HD 125473 · HIP 70090

10,516 K
temperature
4.05
apparent magnitude
132× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
259 years
at light speed from Earth
1.82×
as hot as the Sun
132×
the Sun's light output
-0.45
absolute magnitude
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Psi CenB-type
Sky regionCentaurusthis direction
StarHR 535720 ly
StarHR 555837 ly
StarHR 522450 ly
StarMenkentstar
StarGamma Censtar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Centaurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Centaurus

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.