K-type star · orange

60 Peg

60 Peg is an orange in the constellation Pegasus 229 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,899 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 229 years ago.

229 lybrightness mag 6.19G8III-IV

Also catalogued as HR 8827 · HD 218935 · HIP 114526

4,899 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
14.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
229 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
14.34×
the Sun's light output
1.96
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.