Star profile
Phi 1 Pavonis
What is Phi 1 Pavonis
Phi-1 Pavonis is a yellow-white F-type star lying some 91 light-years away, in the bright Peacock, a constellation drawn by Dutch navigators in the sixteenth century from the plumage of the bird that attended the goddess Hera. Slightly hotter and brighter than the Sun, it is a main-sequence star in full maturity, suspended in the deep southern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
Phi 1 Pavonis lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is July, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never rises above the horizon.
- From New York it never rises above the horizon.
- From Sydney it never sets and culminates about 63° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 29° N.
It ranks no. 13 in brightness among the 44 stars of Pavo in our catalogue. To find it, start from Peacock, the brightest: it lies about 4° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 91 years ago.
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Astronomical data for Phi 1 Pavonis
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.75
- Distance
- 90.7 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 308.895° · Dec -60.582°
- Catalogue
- HIP 101612 · HD 195627
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Other stars in Pavo
Pavo has 44 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- PeacockAlpha Pavonis1.94
- Beta Pavonis3.42
- Delta Pavonis3.55
- Xi Pavonis4.35
- Kappa Pavonis4.40
- Nu Pavonis4.63
- HIP 920244.78
- Rho Pavonis4.86