F-type star · yellow-white star

Rho Phe

242 lybrightness mag 5.24F2III

Also catalogued as HR 242 · HD 4919 · HIP 3949

7,124 K

temperature

5.24

apparent magnitude

38.48× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

242 years

at light speed from Earth

1.23×

as hot as the Sun

38.48×

the Sun's light output

0.89

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Rho PheF-type

Sky regionPhoenixthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 299 →21 ly apart
HR 148 →22 ly apart
Mu Phe →22 ly apart
Eta Phe →28 ly apart
HR 447 →31 ly apart
Xi Phe →33 ly apart

Bright stars in Phoenix

Ankaa →mag 2.4
Bet Phe →mag 3.3
Gam Phe →mag 3.4
Eps Phe →mag 3.9
Kap Phe →mag 3.9
Del Phe →mag 3.9
Wurren →mag 3.9
Eta Phe →mag 4.4

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Phoenix

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.