A-type star · white star

Delta Pyx

Delta Pyx is a white star in the constellation Pyxis 247 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,641 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.44× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 247 years ago.

247 lybrightness mag 4.87A3IV

Also catalogued as HR 3556 · HD 76483 · HIP 43825

8,641 K

temperature

4.87

apparent magnitude

56.44× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

247 years

at light speed from Earth

1.50×

as hot as the Sun

56.44×

the Sun's light output

0.47

absolute magnitude

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Delta PyxA-type

Sky regionPyxisthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.9To 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.