K-type star · orange

45 Peg

45 Peg is an orange in the constellation Pegasus 370 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,610 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.77× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 370 years ago.

370 lybrightness mag 6.27G6III:

Also catalogued as HR 8660 · HD 215510 · HIP 112358

4,610 K

temperature

6.27

apparent magnitude

34.77× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G6III:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

370 years

at light speed from Earth

0.80×

as hot as the Sun

34.77×

the Sun's light output

1.00

absolute magnitude

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45 PegK-type

Sky regionPegasusthis direction

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Bright stars in Pegasus

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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.