Star profile
Upsilon Pavonis
Hot blue starWhat is Upsilon Pavonis
Upsilon Pavonis is a hot blue B-type star, some 786 light-years away in the southern Peacock. Its surface comfortably exceeds 10,000 degrees and emits a blue-white light that has been travelling since the time when Europe's first universities began teaching astronomy from the Arabic texts translated in Toledo. It is a very young star in cosmic terms, barely a quick flash in the history of the galaxy, and it will exhaust its fuel long before the small red dwarfs around it.
Where it is and when to see it
Upsilon 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: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for Upsilon Pavonis
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.14
- Distance
- 786.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 310.488° · Dec -66.761°
- Catalogue
- HIP 102157 · HD 196519
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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
- HIP 986084.95
- Omicron Pavonis5.06
- Phi 2 Pavonis5.11
- Omega Pavonis5.14
- HIP 981745.24