K-type star · orange
70 Peg
70 Peg is an orange in the constellation Pegasus 175 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,894 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 175 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 8923 · HD 221115 · HIP 115919
4,894 K
temperature
4.54
apparent magnitude
38.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
175 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
38.26×
the Sun's light output
0.89
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.