G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

Iota Pav

Iota Pav is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Pavo 57.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,999 K, and it shines at 1.75× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 57 years ago.

57.4 lybrightness mag 5.47G0V

Also catalogued as HR 6761 · HD 165499 · HIP 89042 · Gliese Gl 705.1

5,999 K

temperature

5.47

apparent magnitude

1.75× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

57 years

at light speed from Earth

1.04×

as hot as the Sun

1.75×

the Sun's light output

4.24

absolute magnitude

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Iota PavG-type

Sky regionPavothis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To 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.