Pi Fornacis

Binary star system in Fornax with a G8 III giant primary.

Pi Fornacis is a binary star system in the southern constellation Fornax. With an apparent visual magnitude of 5.360, it is visible to the naked eye on a dark night. The primary is an evolved G-type giant star of class G8 III, while a companion was discovered in 2008 using the AMBER instrument of the Very Large Telescope.

Quick Facts

Apparent visual magnitude: 5.360
Distance from sun: 289 light years
Stellar classification (primary): G8 III
Mass (primary): slightly higher than the Sun
Radius (primary): more than nine times the Sun's radius
Luminosity (primary): 59 times solar
Effective temperature (primary): 5,048 K
Orbital period (pair): 11.4 years

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