A-type star · white star
Xi Phe
Xi Phe is a white star in the constellation Phoenix 219 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,739 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 219 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 183 · HD 3980 · HIP 3277
8,739 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
20.16× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Ap
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
219 years
at light speed from Earth
1.51×
as hot as the Sun
20.16×
the Sun's light output
1.59
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.