G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
Helvetios
Helvetios is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Pegasus 50.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,721 K, and it shines at 1.40× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 51 years ago.
Also catalogued as 51 Peg · HR 8729 · HD 217014 · HIP 113357 · Gliese Gl 882
5,721 K
temperature
5.45
apparent magnitude
1.40× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
51 years
at light speed from Earth
0.99×
as hot as the Sun
1.40×
the Sun's light output
4.48
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.