K-type star · orange

Zeta Pav

Zeta Pav is an orange in the constellation Pavo 218 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,442 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 97.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 218 years ago.

218 lybrightness mag 4.01K2III

Also catalogued as HR 6982 · HD 171759 · HIP 91792

4,442 K
temperature
4.01
apparent magnitude
97.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
218 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
97.27×
the Sun's light output
-0.12
absolute magnitude
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Zeta PavK-type
Sky regionPavothis direction
StarTheta Pav25 ly
StarHR 635728 ly
StarPhi Oct28 ly
StarPeacockstar
StarBeta Pavstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pavo
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.0To 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.