Star profile
58 Pegasi
Hot blue starWhat is 58 Pegasi
58 Pegasi burns with blue B-class light some 810 light-years away, within the summer quadrangle of Pegasus. B stars are young, very hot suns, with surface temperatures several times that of our own and brief lives on a cosmic scale. The radiation reaching observers tonight left during the twelfth century, when Europe s great Gothic cathedrals were rising.
Where it is and when to see it
58 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 September, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it culminates about 48° above the horizon.
- From New York it culminates about 59° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 46° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 80° S.
It ranks no. 48 in brightness among the 98 stars of Pegasus in our catalogue. To find it, start from Enif, the brightest: it lies about 21° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 810 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 58 Pegasi
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.39
- Distance
- 809.4 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 347.506° · Dec 9.822°
- Catalogue
- HIP 114389 · HD 218700
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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
- HIP 1096545.34
- 64 Pegasi5.35
- 30 Pegasi5.37
- Helvetios5.45
- 5 Pegasi5.46