B-type star · blue-white star

Delta Pic

Delta Pic is a blue-white star in the constellation Pictor 1,299 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 14,327 K, about 2.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,790× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,299 years ago.

1,299 lybrightness mag 4.72B0.5IV

Also catalogued as HR 2212 · HD 42933 · HIP 29276

14,327 K

temperature

4.72

apparent magnitude

1,790× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B0.5IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,299 years

at light speed from Earth

2.48×

as hot as the Sun

1,790×

the Sun's light output

-3.28

absolute magnitude

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Delta PicB-type

Sky regionPictorthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Pictor

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pictor

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.