Star profile
Lambda Piscium
What is Lambda Piscium
Lambda Piscium traces the southeastern corner of the Circlet of Pisces, that small ring of stars representing the head of one of the fish. It is white, young at some 583 million years, nearly double the Sun's size and thirteen times as luminous, just 107 light-years away. A modest star whose geometry inside the ring makes it indispensable to the asterism.
Where it is and when to see it
Lambda Piscium lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is September: 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 Piscium
- Constellation
- Pisces
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.49
- Distance
- 106.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 355.512° · Dec 1.780°
- Catalogue
- HIP 116928 · HD 222603
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Other stars in Pisces
Pisces has 79 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AlphergEta Piscium3.62
- Gamma Piscium3.70
- AlreschaAlpha Piscium3.82
- Delta Piscium4.44
- Nu Piscium4.45
- FumalsamakahBeta Piscium4.48
- Tau Piscium4.51
- 33 Piscium4.61