List of stars in Piscis Austrinus - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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s in the constellation

Constellation

In modern astronomy, a constellation is an internationally defined area of the celestial sphere. These areas are grouped around asterisms, patterns formed by prominent stars within apparent proximity to one another on Earth's night sky....

Piscis Austrinus
Piscis Austrinus
Piscis Austrinus is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere. The name is Latin for "the southern fish" in contrast with the larger constellation Pisces, which represents a pair of fishes. Prior to the 20th century, it was also known as Piscis Notius...

, sorted by decreasing brightness.

Name	B Bayer designation A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek letter, followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name...	F Flamsteed designation Flamsteed designations for stars are similar to Bayer designations, except that they use numbers instead of Greek letters. Each star is assigned a number and the Latin genitive of the constellation it lies in...	HD Henry Draper Catalogue The Henry Draper Catalogue is an astronomical star catalogue published between 1918 and 1924, giving spectroscopic classifications for 225,300 stars; it was later expanded by the Henry Draper Extension , published between 1925 and 1936, which gave classifications for 46,850 more stars, and by the...	HIP	vis. mag. Apparent magnitude The apparent magnitude of a celestial body is a measure of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth, adjusted to the value it would have in the absence of the atmosphere...	abs. mag. Absolute magnitude Absolute magnitude is the measure of a celestial object's intrinsic brightness. it is also the apparent magnitude a star would have if it were 32.6 light years away from Earth...	Dist. (ly)	Sp. class Stellar classification In astronomy, stellar classification is a classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. The spectral class of a star is a designated class of a star describing the ionization of its chromosphere, what atomic excitations are most prominent in the light, giving an objective measure...	Notes
Fomalhaut Fomalhaut Fomalhaut is the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus and one of the brightest stars in the sky. Fomalhaut can be seen low in the southern sky in the northern hemisphere in fall and early winter evenings. Near latitude 50˚N, it sets around the time Sirius rises, and does not...	α	24	216956	113368	1.17	1.74	25	A3V	Fom Alhout Algenubi, Os Piscis Meridiani, Os Piscis Meridionalis, Os Piscis Notii, Difda al Auwel; 18th brightest star; nearby; has a circumstellar disk Protoplanetary disk A protoplanetary disk is a rotating circumstellar disk of dense gas surrounding a young newly formed star, a T Tauri star, or Herbig Ae/Be star... and one known planet Extrasolar planet An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar System. A total of such planets have been identified as of . It is now known that a substantial fraction of stars have planets, including perhaps half of all Sun-like stars... (b Fomalhaut b Fomalhaut b is an extrasolar planet approximately 25 light-years away in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus. The planet was discovered orbiting the A-type main sequence star Fomalhaut in 2008 in photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope... )
ε PsA	ε	18	214748	111954	4.18	−2.61	744	B8V
δ PsA	δ	23	216763	113246	4.20	0.61	170	G8III
β PsA Beta Piscis Austrini Beta Piscis Austrini is a star in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus. With Delta and Zeta it constituted Tien Kang in China....	β	17	213398	111188	4.29	1.00	148	A1V	Tien Kang
ι PsA	ι	9	206742	107380	4.35	0.36	205	B9.5V
γ PsA	γ	22	216336	112948	4.46	0.29	222	A0III
μ PsA	μ	14	210049	109285	4.50	1.49	130	A2V
τ PsA	τ	15	210302	109422	4.94	3.58	61	F6V
υ PsA	υ		210066	109289	4.99	−1.06	528	K4III	26 G. Piscis Austrini.
θ PsA	θ	10	207155	107608	5.02	−0.06	339	A1V
π PsA	π		217792	113860	5.12	2.84	93	A9V	72 Piscis Austrini.
29 G. PsA			210271	109404	5.37	1.30	212	A5IV
η PsA	η	12	209014	108661	5.43	−2.03	1012	B8/B9V+...
λ PsA	λ	16	210934	109789	5.45	−0.51	508	B7V
WX PsA (68 G. PsA)			217236	113532	5.51	0.26	366	F0V	δ Sct variable Delta Scuti variable A Delta Scuti variable is a variable star which exhibits variations in its luminosity due to both radial and non-radial pulsations of the star's surface. Typical brightness fluctuations are from 0.003 to 0.9 magnitudes in V over a period of a few hours, although the amplitude and period of the...
71 G. PsA			217484	113669	5.55	−0.72	584	K3III
34 G. PsA			210848	109737	5.58	1.43	221	F7II
VZ PsA (49 G. PsA)			214484	111809	5.66	0.04	435	A0V	Algol variable Algol variable Algol variables or Algol-type binaries are a class of eclipsing binary stars where the orbital plane of the stars are coincident with the line of sight from Earth. When the cooler component passes in front of the hotter one, part of the latter's light is blocked, and the total brightness of the...
69 G. PsA			217303	113562	5.66	−1.02	706	K0IICNIII
8 PsA		8	205471	106654	5.73	2.07	176	A7/A8IV
47 G. PsA			214122	111600	5.82	0.92	312	K2III
51 G. PsA			214690	111934	5.88	−0.59	642	K2/K3III
40 G. PsA			213135	111045	5.95	2.83	137	F0V
6 PsA		6	204854	106340	5.97	0.46	412	A2V
UU PsA (25 G. PsA)			209522	108975	5.97	−1.73	1128	B3V (+B)	Be star Be star A Be star is a B-type star with prominent emission lines of hydrogen in its spectrum. The designation is combined by the spectral class, B, and the lowercase e denoting emission in the spectral classification system. Line emission from other atomic ions might be present as well, but is typically...
21 PsA		21	216210	112862	5.99	0.71	370	G8/K0III
64 G. PsA			216761	113234	6.09	−1.23	948	K3III
7 PsA		7	205529	106703	6.10	1.79	237	A5V
19 PsA		19	214966	112102	6.12	−0.23	607	M3III
36 G. PsA			211291	109990	6.14	−0.07	568	K1II/III
67 G. PsA			217096	113447	6.15	1.70	253	F7V
33 G. PsA			210739	109667	6.19	2.37	189	A3V
8 G. PsA			205872	106907	6.28	3.01	147	G8IV
56 G. PsA			215669	112501	6.28	1.32	320	K1III
50 G. PsA			214599	111879	6.30	0.53	466	K0/K1III
70 G. PsA			217358	113593	6.30	0.71	428	K1III
57 G. PsA			215782	112567	6.31	0.31	517	G8III
59 G. PsA			216042	112746	6.34	2.12	228	F0V
28 G. PsA			210111	109306	6.37	1.89	257	A2III/IV
19 G. PsA			208285	108259	6.41	0.90	412	G8III
3 G. PsA			205265	106564	6.42	−0.22	695	B8IIIw
ζ PsA	ζ		213296	111138	6.43	0.99	399	K1III	41 G. Piscis Austrini.
31 G. PsA			210300	109412	6.44	1.27	353	A5V
13 PsA		13	209476	108952	6.45	−1.55	1299	K5III
48 G. PsA			214462	111801	6.46	1.00	403	K1III
TW PsA TW Piscis Austrini TW Piscis Austrini is a dwarf star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. It lies relatively close to the Sun, at an estimated distance of 24.9 light years....			216803	113283	6.48	7.07	25	K4Vp	65 G. Piscis Austrini. BY Dra variable BY Draconis variable BY Draconis variables are main sequence variable stars of late spectral types, usually K or M. The name comes from the archetype for this category of variable star system, BY Draconis. They exhibit variations in their luminosity due to rotation of the star coupled with star spots, and other... ; nearby; may be related to Fomalhaut.
5 PsA		5	204394	106067	6.52	1.21	377	A1V
Lacaille 9352 Lacaille 9352 Lacaille 9352 is a red dwarf star approximately 3.29 pc or 10.74 light years from Earth's Solar System. This star has the fourth highest known proper motion, moving a total of 6.9 arcseconds per year...			217987	114046	7.34	9.75	11	M0.5V	10th nearest star system
HD 216770 HD 216770 HD 216770 is an 8th magnitude star located approximately 124 light-years away in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus. It is an orange dwarf , and is somewhat dimmer and cooler than our Sun....			216770	113238	8.10	5.21	124	K1V	has a planet (b HD 216770 b HD 216770 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 216770. It has a mass about two thirds that of Jupiter, largest planet in our Solar system. But unlike the gas giants in the Solar system, it orbits in a very eccentric orbit around the star... )
HD 205739 HD 205739 HD 205739 is a yellow-white dwarf . It is about 90 parsecs away from the Sun.A Jupiter-like planet has recently been detected in a Mercury-like eccentric orbit around this star....			205739	106824	8.56	3.78	295	G3IV	text-align:left; > has a planet (b HD 205739 b HD 205739 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 295 light-years away in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus, orbiting the star HD 205739. This planet has a minimum mass 37% more than Jupiter and orbits 90% of the distance between the Earth and the Sun... )

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