K-type star · orange

78 Peg

78 Peg is an orange in the constellation Pegasus 224 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,904 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 224 years ago.

224 lybrightness mag 4.93K0III

Also catalogued as HR 8997 · HD 222842 · HIP 117073

4,904 K
temperature
4.93
apparent magnitude
43.93× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
224 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
43.93×
the Sun's light output
0.74
absolute magnitude
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78 PegK-type
Sky regionPegasusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To 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.