B-type star · blue-white star

Upsilon Pav

Upsilon Pav is a blue-white star in the constellation Pavo 786 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,956 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 445× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 786 years ago.

786 lybrightness mag 5.14B8Vvar

Also catalogued as HR 7881 · HD 196519 · HIP 102157

10,956 K

temperature

5.14

apparent magnitude

445× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8Vvar

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

786 years

at light speed from Earth

1.90×

as hot as the Sun

445×

the Sun's light output

-1.77

absolute magnitude

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Upsilon PavB-type

Sky regionPavothis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To 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.