A-type star · white star

Salm

Salm is a white star in the constellation Pegasus 162 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,321 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 162 years ago.

162 lybrightness mag 4.58A5V

Also catalogued as Tau Peg · HR 8880 · HD 220061 · HIP 115250

8,321 K

temperature

4.58

apparent magnitude

31.51× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

162 years

at light speed from Earth

1.44×

as hot as the Sun

31.51×

the Sun's light output

1.10

absolute magnitude

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SalmA-type

Sky regionPegasusthis direction

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Bright stars in Pegasus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pegasus

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.