B-type star · blue-white star

Eta Pyx

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Eta PyxB-type

Sky regionPyxisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3381 →9.5 ly apart
Zet Pyx →19 ly apart
HR 3559 →19 ly apart
Del Pyx →23 ly apart
Gam Pyx →27 ly apart
HR 3397 →28 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
Del Pyx →mag 4.9

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.