F-type star · yellow-white star
Sigma Peg
Sigma Peg is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pegasus 89.0 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,448 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 89 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8697 · HD 216385 · HIP 112935 · Gliese GJ 9801A
6,448 K
temperature
5.16
apparent magnitude
5.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
89 years
at light speed from Earth
1.12×
as hot as the Sun
5.59×
the Sun's light output
2.98
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.