Star profile
6 Piscis Austrini
What is 6 Piscis Austrini
6 Piscis Austrini is a white A-type star shining at 503 light-years within the southern fish, a quiet constellation dominated by the dazzling Fomalhaut. Hotter and more luminous than the Sun, its light looks onto a stretch of southern sky little visited by northern observers. It lies beyond Fomalhaut, in a zone where modern catalogs still pick out faint stars that escape the naked eye.
Where it is and when to see it
6 Piscis Austrini lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 6 Piscis Austrini
- Constellation
- Piscis Austrinus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.97
- Distance
- 503.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 323.061° · Dec -33.945°
- Catalogue
- HIP 106340 · HD 204854
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Other stars in Piscis Austrinus
Piscis Austrinus has 26 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- FomalhautAlpha Piscis Austrini1.17
- Epsilon Piscis Austrini4.18
- Delta Piscis Austrini4.20
- HIP 1116005.82
- HIP 1119345.88
- HIP 1110455.95
- HIP 1089755.97
- 21 Piscis Austrini5.99