B-type star · blue-white star
HD 179419
HD 179419 is a blue-white star in the constellation Pavo 769 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,738 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 131× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 769 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 94770
10,738 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
131× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8/B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
769 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
131×
the Sun's light output
-0.44
absolute magnitude
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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.