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Proper Name(s)	None
Bayer Designation	None
Flamsteed Number	88 Piscium
HR (BSC)	367
HD	7446
Constellation	Pisces
Right Ascension	1h 14m 42s
Declination	+6° 59' 43"
Distance	458 light years 140 parsecs
Magnitude	Apparent: +6.4 Absolute: +0.3
Spectral Class	G6 Yellow Giant
Optimum Visibility	October
Notes	A star too faint for most observers to even detect with the naked eye, 88 Piscium is in fact a distant giant star some fourteen times the diameter of the Sun, and emitting about eighty times as much light energy.

88 Piscium lies along the southern 'cord' of the constellation Pisces, near to the Ecliptic. With a magnitude of greater than +6, it is not visible to the naked eye.

A giant yellow star in the constellation of Pisces, but lying so far away from the Sun (more than 450 light years) that it is too faint to be visible to the naked eye.

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