F-type star · yellow-white star

Psi For

Psi For is a yellow-white star in the constellation Fornax 191 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,689 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.66× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 191 years ago.

191 lybrightness mag 5.93F5V

Also catalogued as HR 863 · HD 18149 · HIP 13473

6,689 K

temperature

5.93

apparent magnitude

12.66× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

191 years

at light speed from Earth

1.16×

as hot as the Sun

12.66×

the Sun's light output

2.09

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Psi ForF-type

Sky regionFornaxthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Fornax

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Fornax

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.