G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
85 Peg
85 Peg is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Pegasus 39.7 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,636 K, and it shines at 0.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 40 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 9088 · HD 224930 · HIP 171 · Gliese Gl 914A
5,636 K
temperature
5.80
apparent magnitude
0.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
40 years
at light speed from Earth
0.98×
as hot as the Sun
0.62×
the Sun's light output
5.37
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.