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73 Piscium

Orange giant in Pisces

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Proper Name	None
Bayer Designation	None
Flamsteed Number	73 Piscium
HR (BSC)	307
HD	6386
Constellation	Pisces
Right Ascension	1h 4m 53s
Declination	+5° 39' 23"
Distance	676 light years 207 parsecs
Magnitude	Apparent: +6.01 Absolute: -0.57
Spectral Class	K5III orange giant
Optimum Visibility	October

Just visible within the halo surrounding 73 Piscium in this image is a faint elongated object to the immediate east (left) of the star itself. This is PGC 3838, a spiral galaxy at an estimated distance of some 280 million light years from the Milky Way. Imagery provided by Aladin sky atlas

A very distant orange giant star (nearly seven hundred light years from Earth's Sun). If it lay ten parsecs from Earth, it would be almost as bright as Sirius: at its extreme distance, though, it can hardly be seen by the naked eye.

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