F-type star · yellow-white star
Phi² Pav
Phi² Pav is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pavo 80.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,196 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.79× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 80 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7875 · HD 196378 · HIP 101983 · Gliese Gl 794.2
6,196 K
temperature
5.11
apparent magnitude
4.79× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
80 years
at light speed from Earth
1.07×
as hot as the Sun
4.79×
the Sun's light output
3.15
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.