K-type star · orange
40 Peg
40 Peg is an orange in the constellation Pegasus 373 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,938 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 52.58× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 373 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8618 · HD 214567 · HIP 111810
4,938 K
temperature
5.84
apparent magnitude
52.58× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
373 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
52.58×
the Sun's light output
0.55
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.