Star profile
Mu 2 Pavonis
What is Mu 2 Pavonis
Mu-2 Pavonis is an orange K-type giant in the Peacock some 236 light-years away. It belongs to the southern landscape that Dutch navigators charted at the close of the sixteenth century, when the map of the constellations surrounding the south celestial pole was still being completed. Together with Mu-1, it sketches across the peacock’s plumage an optical pair that the eye cannot split but a telescope easily resolves, two orange embers at very different distances, simply aligned by chance along the very same line of sight.
Where it is and when to see it
Mu 2 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 Mu 2 Pavonis
- Constellation
- Pavo
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.32
- Distance
- 236.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 300.468° · Dec -66.944°
- Catalogue
- HIP 98624 · HD 188887
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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
- Omega Pavonis5.14
- HIP 981745.24
- HIP 941505.31
- HIP 975345.39
- Sigma Pavonis5.41