A-type star · white star
Theta Pav
Theta Pav is a white star in the constellation Pavo 221 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,671 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.76× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 221 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7036 · HD 173168 · HIP 92294
7,671 K
temperature
5.71
apparent magnitude
20.76× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
221 years
at light speed from Earth
1.33×
as hot as the Sun
20.76×
the Sun's light output
1.56
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.