A-type star · white star
3 Peg
3 Peg is a white star in the constellation Pegasus 286 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,585 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.37× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 286 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8265 · HD 205811 · HIP 106783
9,585 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
22.37× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
286 years
at light speed from Earth
1.66×
as hot as the Sun
22.37×
the Sun's light output
1.48
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.