K-type star · orange
87 Peg
87 Peg is an orange in the constellation Pegasus 285 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,642 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.37× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 285 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 22 · HD 448 · HIP 729
4,642 K
temperature
5.57
apparent magnitude
39.37× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
285 years
at light speed from Earth
0.80×
as hot as the Sun
39.37×
the Sun's light output
0.86
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.