B-type star · blue-white star

Alpha Pyx

Alpha Pyx is a blue-white star in the constellation Pyxis 879 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,121 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,134× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 879 years ago.

879 lybrightness mag 3.68B1.5III

Also catalogued as HR 3468 · HD 74575 · HIP 42828

13,121 K
temperature
3.68
apparent magnitude
2,134× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1.5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
879 years
at light speed from Earth
2.27×
as hot as the Sun
2,134×
the Sun's light output
-3.47
absolute magnitude
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Alpha PyxB-type
Sky regionPyxisthis direction
StarHR 334378 ly
StarHR 3389100 ly
StarHD 72913110 ly
StarBeta Pyxstar
StarGamma Pyxstar
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Bright stars in Pyxis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pyxis

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.