K-type star · orange
55 Peg
55 Peg is an orange in the constellation Pegasus 329 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,707 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 135× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 329 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8795 · HD 218329 · HIP 114144
3,707 K
temperature
4.54
apparent magnitude
135× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
329 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
135×
the Sun's light output
-0.48
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.