F-type star · yellow-white star

Gamma Pav

Gamma Pav is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pavo 30.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,416 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 30 years ago.

30.2 lybrightness mag 4.21F6V

Also catalogued as HR 8181 · HD 203608 · HIP 105858 · Gliese Gl 827

6,416 K

temperature

4.21

apparent magnitude

1.55× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F6V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

30 years

at light speed from Earth

1.11×

as hot as the Sun

1.55×

the Sun's light output

4.38

absolute magnitude

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Sky regionPavothis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.2To 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.