K-type star · orange

Zeta PsA

Zeta PsA is an orange in the constellation Piscis Austrinus 432 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,552 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 432 years ago.

432 lybrightness mag 6.43K1III

Also catalogued as HR 8570 · HD 213296 · HIP 111138

4,552 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
40.93× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
432 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
40.93×
the Sun's light output
0.82
absolute magnitude
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Zeta PsAK-type
Sky regionPiscis Austrinusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Piscis Austrinus

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.