A-type star · white star

Tau Pav

635 lybrightness mag 6.25A6IV/V

Also catalogued as HR 7274 · HD 179009 · HIP 94724

8,218 K

temperature

6.25

apparent magnitude

104× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A6IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

635 years

at light speed from Earth

1.42×

as hot as the Sun

104×

the Sun's light output

-0.20

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Tau PavA-type

Sky regionPavothis direction

Nearest stars

HR 7455 →53 ly apart
HR 7320 →54 ly apart
HR 6808 →63 ly apart
HR 6996 →74 ly apart
HR 7838 →77 ly apart
HR 7027 →87 ly apart

Bright stars in Pavo

Peacock →mag 1.9
Bet Pav →mag 3.4
Del Pav →mag 3.5
Eta Pav →mag 3.6
Eps Pav →mag 4.0
Zet Pav →mag 4.0
Gam Pav →mag 4.2
Lam Pav →mag 4.2

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.