K-type star · orange

71 Peg

71 Peg is an orange in the constellation Pegasus 520 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,822 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 164× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 520 years ago.

520 lybrightness mag 5.33M5IIIa

Also catalogued as HR 8940 · HD 221615 · HIP 116264

3,822 K
temperature
5.33
apparent magnitude
164× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M5IIIa
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
520 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
164×
the Sun's light output
-0.68
absolute magnitude
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71 PegK-type
Sky regionPegasusthis direction
Star65 Peg59 ly
StarHR 882466 ly
StarPsi Peg69 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook 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.