F-type star · yellow-white star
3 Peg
3 Peg is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pegasus 474 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,055 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 7.7 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 474 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8265 · HD 205811 · HIP 106781
7,055 K
temperature
7.66
apparent magnitude
15.88× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
474 years
at light speed from Earth
1.22×
as hot as the Sun
15.88×
the Sun's light output
1.85
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.