A-type star · white star
Pi Cas
Pi Cas is a white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 175 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,403 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 26.28× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 175 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 184 · HD 4058 · HIP 3414
8,403 K
temperature
4.95
apparent magnitude
26.28× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
175 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
26.28×
the Sun's light output
1.30
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.