K-type star · orange
86 Peg
86 Peg is an orange in the constellation Pegasus 373 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,994 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 68.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 373 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4 · HD 87 · HIP 476
4,994 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
68.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
373 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
68.55×
the Sun's light output
0.26
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.