B-type star · blue-white star

Alp Pyx

879 lybrightness mag 3.68B1.5III

Also catalogued as HR 3468 · HD 74575 · HIP 42828

13,121 K

temperature

3.68

apparent magnitude

2,134× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1.5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

879 years

at light speed from Earth

2.27×

as hot as the Sun

2,134×

the Sun's light output

-3.47

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Alp PyxB-type

Sky regionPyxisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3343 →78 ly apart
HR 3389 →100 ly apart
HD 72913 →110 ly apart
HR 3533 →120 ly apart
HR 3237 →120 ly apart
HD 79456 →130 ly apart

Bright stars in Pyxis

Bet Pyx →mag 4.0
Gam Pyx →mag 4.0
Kap Pyx →mag 4.6
The Pyx →mag 4.7
Lam Pyx →mag 4.7
Zet Pyx →mag 4.9
Del Pyx →mag 4.9
Eta Pyx →mag 5.2

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.7To 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.