A-type star · white star

Epsilon Cep

Epsilon Cep is a white star in the constellation Cepheus 85.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,605 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 85 years ago.

85.4 lybrightness mag 4.18F0IV

Also catalogued as HR 8494 · HD 211336 · HIP 109857 · Gliese GJ 4266

7,605 K
temperature
4.18
apparent magnitude
12.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
85 years
at light speed from Earth
1.32×
as hot as the Sun
12.72×
the Sun's light output
2.09
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon CepA-type
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.2To 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.