F-type star · yellow-white star

Kappa Pav

Kappa Pav is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pavo 500 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,256 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 356× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 500 years ago.

500 lybrightness mag 4.40F5Ib-II:

Also catalogued as HR 7107 · HD 174694 · HIP 93015

6,256 K
temperature
4.40
apparent magnitude
356× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5Ib-II:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
500 years
at light speed from Earth
1.08×
as hot as the Sun
356×
the Sun's light output
-1.53
absolute magnitude
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Kappa PavF-type
Sky regionPavothis direction
StarHR 674049 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pavo
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.4To 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.