B-type star · blue-white star
23 Peg
23 Peg is a blue-white star in the constellation Pegasus 347 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,766 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 52.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 347 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8419 · HD 209833 · HIP 109056
10,766 K
temperature
5.69
apparent magnitude
52.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
347 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
52.19×
the Sun's light output
0.56
absolute magnitude
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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.