F-type star · yellow-white star

Rho Phe

Rho Phe is a yellow-white star in the constellation Phoenix 242 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,124 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 242 years ago.

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

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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.