G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
Pi Cep
Pi Cep is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cepheus 247 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,275 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 85.82× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 247 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8819 · HD 218658 · HIP 114222
5,275 K
temperature
4.41
apparent magnitude
85.82× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
247 years
at light speed from Earth
0.91×
as hot as the Sun
85.82×
the Sun's light output
0.02
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.