B-type star · blue-white star
Rho Peg
Rho Peg is a blue-white star in the constellation Pegasus 312 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,163 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 86.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 312 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8717 · HD 216735 · HIP 113186
10,163 K
temperature
4.91
apparent magnitude
86.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
312 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
86.62×
the Sun's light output
0.01
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.