K-type star · orange

Sigma Pav

Sigma Pav is an orange in the constellation Pavo 302 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,468 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 302 years ago.

302 lybrightness mag 5.41K0III

Also catalogued as HR 7934 · HD 197635 · HIP 102773

4,468 K
temperature
5.41
apparent magnitude
51.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
302 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
51.19×
the Sun's light output
0.58
absolute magnitude
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Sigma PavK-type
Sky regionPavothis direction
StarHR 801942 ly
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Bright stars in Pavo
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To 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.