A-type star · white star

Del Pyx

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Del PyxA-type

Sky regionPyxisthis direction

Nearest stars

Zet Pyx →17 ly apart
HR 3559 →21 ly apart
Eta Pyx →23 ly apart
HR 3381 →27 ly apart
HR 3507 →31 ly apart
HR 3512 →32 ly apart

Bright stars in Pyxis

Alp Pyx →mag 3.7
Bet Pyx →mag 4.0
Gam Pyx →mag 4.0
Kap Pyx →mag 4.6
The Pyx →mag 4.7
Lam Pyx →mag 4.7
Zet Pyx →mag 4.9
Eta Pyx →mag 5.2

Can you see it tonight?

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.