K-type star · orange

Eta Pav

Eta Pav is an orange in the constellation Pavo 352 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,387 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 365× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 352 years ago.

352 lybrightness mag 3.61K1III

Also catalogued as HR 6582 · HD 160635 · HIP 86929

4,387 K
temperature
3.61
apparent magnitude
365× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
352 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
365×
the Sun's light output
-1.56
absolute magnitude
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Eta PavK-type
Sky regionPavothis direction
StarHR 636836 ly
StarHR 700438 ly
StarTheta TrA46 ly
StarPeacockstar
StarBeta Pavstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pavo
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pavo

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.