- Stars with a name
- Peacock
Peacock
α Pavonis
Peacock is a very hot blue star, in the constellation Pavo. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1847.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it never rises: it belongs to the southern sky.
Bright enough to see even from a city. Apparent magnitude 1.94.
What it’s like
It gives off 439 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 11,900 degrees.
It is 178.8 light years away: 1692 trillion kilometres.