Psi Crateris
Visual binary in Crater with a 366-year orbit.
Psi Crateris is a visual binary star system in the southern constellation Crater, faintly visible to the naked eye at magnitude 6.13. The primary is an A-type main-sequence star of class A0 V, while the secondary is of class A3. The system lies about 500 light-years away and has an orbital period of roughly 366 years.
Quick Facts
- Apparent visual magnitude
- 6.13
- Distance
- approximately 500 light-years
- Orbital period
- about 366 years
- Orbital eccentricity
- 0.43
- Orbital inclination
- 100°
- Primary spectral type
- A0 V
- Primary luminosity
- about 75 times solar
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