K-type star · orange
56 Peg
56 Peg is an orange in the constellation Pegasus 592 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,148 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 358× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 592 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8796 · HD 218356 · HIP 114155
4,148 K
temperature
4.76
apparent magnitude
358× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IIp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
592 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
358×
the Sun's light output
-1.53
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.