K-type star · orange
Beta Sge
Beta Sge is an orange in the constellation Sagitta 440 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,646 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 277× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 440 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7488 · HD 185958 · HIP 96837
4,646 K
temperature
4.39
apparent magnitude
277× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
440 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
277×
the Sun's light output
-1.26
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.