Star profile
Iota Pavonis
What is Iota Pavonis
Iota Pavonis shines in the Peacock, one of the southern constellations devised by the Dutch navigators Keyser and de Houtman in the late sixteenth century. It is a yellow G-type star at just 57 light-years, which makes it a near neighbour of the Sun and, in colour and temperature, one of its many scattered sisters across the southern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
Iota 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: 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 Iota Pavonis
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.47
- Distance
- 57.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 272.609° · Dec -62.002°
- Catalogue
- HIP 89042 · HD 165499
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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
- Sigma Pavonis5.41
- HIP 976465.41
- HIP 1060445.47
- HIP 947895.52
- HIP 894875.58