- 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 temperature is about 11,600 degrees Celsius.
It is 178.8 light years away: 1692 trillion kilometres.