Beta Pegasi
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star in the constellation Pegasus
Key facts
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Right ascension
- 23 03 46.45746
- Declination
- +28 ° 04 ′ 58.0336 ″
- Apparent magnitude v
- 2.31 – 2.74
- Evolutionary stage
- AGB
- Spectral type
- M2.5II–IIIe
- U b color index
- +1.96
- B v color index
- +1.67
- Variable type
- Semi-regular
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- star
- Part of
- Great Square of Pegasus
- Constellation
- Pegasus
- Distance from Earth
- 199
- Radius
- 95
- Mass
- 6
- Variable-star type
- slow irregular variable
- Image
- Pegasus constellation map.svg
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- catalog code
- UBV M 26800
- spectral class
- Ma
- stellar rotational velocity
- 9.7
- apparent magnitude
- -2.379
- parallax
- 16.64
- absolute magnitude
- -1.541
- radial velocity
- 8.6
- metallicity
- -0.85
- right ascension
- 345.943572745
- declination
- 28.082787125
- effective temperature
- 3689
- epoch
- J2000.0
- surface gravity
- 10
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 187
- declination component of proper motion
- 136
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Encyclopedic overview
Beta Pegasi (β Pegasi, abbreviated Beta Peg, β Peg), formally named Scheat /ˈʃiːæt/, is a red giant star and the second-brightest star (after Epsilon Pegasi) in the constellation of Pegasus. It forms the upper right corner of the Great Square of Pegasus, a prominent rectangular asterism.
Nomenclature
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Beta Pegasi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.