B-type star · blue-white star

Eta Pyx

Eta Pyx is a blue-white star in the constellation Pyxis 232 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,516 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 232 years ago.

232 lybrightness mag 5.24A0V

Also catalogued as HR 3420 · HD 73495 · HIP 42334

10,516 K
temperature
5.24
apparent magnitude
35.29× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
232 years
at light speed from Earth
1.82×
as hot as the Sun
35.29×
the Sun's light output
0.98
absolute magnitude
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Eta PyxB-type
Sky regionPyxisthis direction
StarHR 33819.5 ly
StarZeta Pyx19 ly
StarHR 355919 ly
StarAlpha Pyxstar
StarBeta Pyxstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pyxis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To 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.