A-type star · white star
Beta Pav
Beta Pav is a white star in the constellation Pavo 135 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,461 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 64.03× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 135 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7913 · HD 197051 · HIP 102395
8,461 K
temperature
3.42
apparent magnitude
64.03× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
135 years
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
64.03×
the Sun's light output
0.33
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.