B-type star · blue-white star

38 Peg

38 Peg is a blue-white star in the constellation Pegasus 360 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,529 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 360 years ago.

360 lybrightness mag 5.64B9.5V

Also catalogued as HR 8574 · HD 213323 · HIP 111068

10,529 K

temperature

5.64

apparent magnitude

58.99× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

360 years

at light speed from Earth

1.82×

as hot as the Sun

58.99×

the Sun's light output

0.42

absolute magnitude

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38 PegB-type

Sky regionPegasusthis direction

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Bright stars in Pegasus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pegasus

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.