M-type star · red
Scheat
Scheat is a red in the constellation Pegasus 196 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,574 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 332× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 196 years ago.
Also catalogued as Beta Peg · HR 8775 · HD 217906 · HIP 113881
3,574 K
temperature
2.44
apparent magnitude
332× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2II-IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
196 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
332×
the Sun's light output
-1.45
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.