A-type star · white star
28 Peg
28 Peg is a white star in the constellation Pegasus 679 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,037 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 99.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 679 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8459 · HD 210516 · HIP 109458
9,037 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
99.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
679 years
at light speed from Earth
1.57×
as hot as the Sun
99.45×
the Sun's light output
-0.14
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.