A-type star · white star
Kappa Cas
Kappa Cas is a white star in the constellation Cassiopeia. Its surface is about 8,748 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 187,068,214× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 4.17B1Ia
Also catalogued as HR 130 · HD 2905 · HIP 2599
8,748 K
temperature
4.17
apparent magnitude
187,068,214× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1Ia
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.52×
as hot as the Sun
187,068,214×
the Sun's light output
-15.83
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.