G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
Alkarab
Alkarab is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Pegasus 170 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,902 K, and it shines at 40.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 170 years ago.
Also catalogued as Upsilon Peg · HR 8905 · HD 220657 · HIP 115623
5,902 K
temperature
4.42
apparent magnitude
40.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
170 years
at light speed from Earth
1.02×
as hot as the Sun
40.55×
the Sun's light output
0.83
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.