B-type star · blue-white star
Homam
Homam is a blue-white star in the constellation Pegasus 204 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,343 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 148× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 204 years ago.
Also catalogued as Zeta Peg · HR 8634 · HD 214923 · HIP 112029
11,343 K
temperature
3.41
apparent magnitude
148× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
204 years
at light speed from Earth
1.97×
as hot as the Sun
148×
the Sun's light output
-0.57
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.