K-type star · orange

Zeta Pyx

Zeta Pyx is an orange in the constellation Pyxis 244 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,996 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 244 years ago.

244 lybrightness mag 4.86G5III

Also catalogued as HR 3433 · HD 73898 · HIP 42483

4,996 K
temperature
4.86
apparent magnitude
55.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
244 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
55.62×
the Sun's light output
0.49
absolute magnitude
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Zeta PyxK-type
Sky regionPyxisthis direction
StarDelta Pyx17 ly
StarEta Pyx19 ly
StarHR 338123 ly
StarAlpha Pyxstar
StarBeta Pyxstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pyxis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pyxis

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.