A-type star · white star

14 Cep

14 Cep is a white star in the constellation Cepheus 3,048 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,918 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4,584× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 3,048 years ago.

3,048 lybrightness mag 5.55O9V

Also catalogued as HR 8406 · HD 209481 · HIP 108772

9,918 K

temperature

5.55

apparent magnitude

4,584× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

O9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

3,048 years

at light speed from Earth

1.72×

as hot as the Sun

4,584×

the Sun's light output

-4.30

absolute magnitude

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Sky regionCepheusthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cepheus

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.