M-type star · red
80 Peg
80 Peg is a red in the constellation Pegasus 845 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,566 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 288× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 845 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 9030 · HD 223637 · HIP 117628
3,566 K
temperature
5.77
apparent magnitude
288× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
845 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
288×
the Sun's light output
-1.30
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.