K-type star · orange

Torcular

Torcular is an orange in the constellation Pisces 279 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,886 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 126× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 279 years ago.

279 lybrightness mag 4.26K0III

Also catalogued as Omicron Psc · HR 510 · HD 10761 · HIP 8198

4,886 K
temperature
4.26
apparent magnitude
126× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
279 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
126×
the Sun's light output
-0.41
absolute magnitude
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TorcularK-type
Sky regionPiscesthis direction
StarMu Psc35 ly
Star4 Ari38 ly
StarHR 57849 ly
StarAlphergstar
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pisces

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.