Star profile
12 Pegasi
Highly luminous starWhat is 12 Pegasi
12 Pegasi is a luminous K-type star whose modest apparent brightness from Earth conceals a true power: at nearly fourteen hundred light-years, its light must cross an ocean of vacuum just to barely register on the human eye. It hangs from the great body of Pegasus, far from the Square, in a region only attentive observers know how to search. Its photons set out long before the first European printing press.
Where it is and when to see it
12 Pegasi lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 61° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 72° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 33° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 67° S.
It ranks no. 40 in brightness among the 98 stars of Pegasus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Enif, the brightest: it lies about 13° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 1,400 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 12 Pegasi
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.29
- Distance
- 1394.0 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 326.518° · Dec 22.949°
- Catalogue
- HIP 107472 · HD 207089
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Other stars in Pegasus
Pegasus has 98 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- EnifEpsilon Pegasi2.38
- ScheatBeta Pegasi2.44
- MarkabAlpha Pegasi2.49
- 77 Pegasi5.09
- 59 Pegasi5.15
- Sigma Pegasi5.16
- 7 Pegasi5.30
- 82 Pegasi5.30