Star profile
Eta Pavonis
What is Eta Pavonis
Eta Pavonis shines in the tail of the southern Peacock with a warm, amber light: an orange K1 giant swollen to about 33 solar radii and radiating more than six hundred times the Sun's energy. At 352 light-years, its 4,640 K surface tells the fate that also awaits the Sun —the stage when stars puff up their atmosphere wider than their own inner planets— and, unhurried, drifts closer to us.
Where it is and when to see it
Eta 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 June, 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 59° up.
It can be seen from anywhere south of 25° N.
It ranks no. 4 in brightness among the 44 stars of Pavo in our catalogue. To find it, start from Peacock, the brightest: it lies about 21° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 350 years ago.
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Astronomical data for Eta Pavonis
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Apparent magnitude
- 3.61
- Distance
- 352.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 266.433° · Dec -64.724°
- Catalogue
- HIP 86929 · HD 160635
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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
- Epsilon Pavonis3.97
- Zeta Pavonis4.01
- Gamma Pavonis4.21
- Lambda Pavonis4.22
- Pi Pavonis4.33