A-type star · white star

Rho² Cep

Rho² Cep is a white star in the constellation Cepheus 245 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,096 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 245 years ago.

245 lybrightness mag 5.45A3V

Also catalogued as HR 8591 · HD 213798 · HIP 111056

9,096 K

temperature

5.45

apparent magnitude

32.48× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

245 years

at light speed from Earth

1.58×

as hot as the Sun

32.48×

the Sun's light output

1.07

absolute magnitude

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Rho² CepA-type

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.