B-type star · blue-white star
Epsilon Pav
Epsilon Pav is a blue-white star in the constellation Pavo 105 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,543 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 105 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7590 · HD 188228 · HIP 98495
10,543 K
temperature
3.97
apparent magnitude
23.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
105 years
at light speed from Earth
1.83×
as hot as the Sun
23.33×
the Sun's light output
1.43
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.