Star profile
Omega Pavonis
What is Omega Pavonis
Omega Pavonis is a faint light of magnitude 5.14 in the tail of the southern Peacock, distant —more than 560 light-years by the Hipparcos parallaxes— and unusually swift: it is receding from us at some 180 km per second, a striking radial velocity for a naked-eye star. It belongs to that quiet population of the deep southern sky that yields only to those who look beyond the famous constellations.
Where it is and when to see it
Omega 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 Omega Pavonis
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.14
- Distance
- 563.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 284.652° · Dec -60.201°
- Catalogue
- HIP 93163 · HD 175329
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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
- Omicron Pavonis5.06
- Phi 2 Pavonis5.11
- Upsilon Pavonis5.14
- HIP 981745.24
- HIP 941505.31