B-type star · blue-white star

Psi Crt

Psi Crt is a blue-white star in the constellation Crater 502 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,175 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 74.13× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 502 years ago.

502 lybrightness mag 6.11A0V

Also catalogued as HR 4347 · HD 97411 · HIP 54742

10,175 K
temperature
6.11
apparent magnitude
74.13× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
502 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
74.13×
the Sun's light output
0.17
absolute magnitude
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Psi CrtB-type
Sky regionCraterthis direction
StarHR 429743 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Crater

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.