B-type star · blue-white star
18 Peg
18 Peg is a blue-white star in the constellation Pegasus 1,073 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,779 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 375× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,073 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8385 · HD 209008 · HIP 108612
11,779 K
temperature
6.00
apparent magnitude
375× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,073 years
at light speed from Earth
2.04×
as hot as the Sun
375×
the Sun's light output
-1.59
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.