B-type star · blue-white star
Nu Pav
Nu Pav is a blue-white star in the constellation Pavo 439 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,849 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 222× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 439 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6916 · HD 169978 · HIP 90797
11,849 K
temperature
4.63
apparent magnitude
222× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
439 years
at light speed from Earth
2.05×
as hot as the Sun
222×
the Sun's light output
-1.01
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.