Star profile
Lambda Piscis Austrini
Hot blue starWhat is Lambda Piscis Austrini
Lambda Piscis Austrini is a hot blue-white star burning in the body of the Southern Fish, some five hundred light-years from Earth. It shines close to Fomalhaut, the lonely star that dominates that strikingly empty region of the autumn sky, but with a much cooler and cobalt-tinged hue than its famous neighbour. Its light set out when the Spanish conquerors were raising Lima beside the calm waters of the Rímac and laying out the grid plan of the new capital.
Where it is and when to see it
Lambda 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 Lambda Piscis Austrini
- Constellation
- Piscis Austrinus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.45
- Distance
- 501.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 333.578° · Dec -27.767°
- Catalogue
- HIP 109789 · HD 210934
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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
- Pi Piscis Austrini5.12
- HIP 1094045.37
- Eta Piscis Austrini5.43
- HIP 1135325.51
- HIP 1136695.55