F-type star · yellow-white star

Xi Peg

Xi Peg is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pegasus 53.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,380 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.84× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 53 years ago.

53.2 lybrightness mag 4.20F7V

Also catalogued as HR 8665 · HD 215648 · HIP 112447 · Gliese Gl 872A

6,380 K

temperature

4.20

apparent magnitude

4.84× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F7V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

53 years

at light speed from Earth

1.11×

as hot as the Sun

4.84×

the Sun's light output

3.14

absolute magnitude

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Xi PegF-type

Sky regionPegasusthis direction

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Bright stars in Pegasus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.2To 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.