Fomalhaut
A lone bright star in a part of the sky with few others, circled by a wide ring of dust.
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Rise, highest point and set are worked out on your device for the place above.
What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 1.17, the 19th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 25 light years
- Kind of star
- White main-sequence star, spectral type A3 V
- Light it gives out
- About 18 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Piscis Austrinus, where it is α Piscis Austrini
- Catalogue number
- HIP 113368
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources
Near it in the sky
- Sculptor GalaxyA galaxy in Sculptor, about a hand span away.
- AchernarA blue-white main-sequence star in Eridanus, about two hand spans away.
- 47 TucanaeA globular cluster in Tucana, about two hand spans away.
- Small Magellanic CloudA galaxy in Tucana, about two hand spans away.
- M 15A globular cluster in Pegasus, about two hand spans away.