B-type star · blue-white star

Lambda Pav

Lambda Pav is a blue-white star in the constellation Pavo 1,431 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,489 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3,436× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,431 years ago.

1,431 lybrightness mag 4.22B2II-III

Also catalogued as HR 7074 · HD 173948 · HIP 92609

12,489 K
temperature
4.22
apparent magnitude
3,436× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2II-III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,431 years
at light speed from Earth
2.16×
as hot as the Sun
3,436×
the Sun's light output
-3.99
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Lambda PavB-type
Sky regionPavothis direction
StarHR 6525240 ly
StarHR 7383240 ly
StarHR 7093260 ly
StarPeacockstar
StarBeta Pavstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pavo
Can you see it tonight?
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.