M-type star · red
Phi Peg
Phi Peg is a red in the constellation Pegasus 463 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,667 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 166× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 463 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 9036 · HD 223768 · HIP 117718
3,667 K
temperature
5.06
apparent magnitude
166× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
463 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
166×
the Sun's light output
-0.70
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.