B-type star · blue-white star

21 Peg

21 Peg is a blue-white star in the constellation Pegasus 630 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,795 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 151× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 630 years ago.

630 lybrightness mag 5.83B9.5V

Also catalogued as HR 8404 · HD 209459 · HIP 108875

10,795 K
temperature
5.83
apparent magnitude
151× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
630 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
151×
the Sun's light output
-0.60
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pegasus

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.