F-type star · yellow-white star

31 Cep

31 Cep is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cepheus 179 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,907 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.37× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 179 years ago.

179 lybrightness mag 5.08F3III-IV

Also catalogued as HR 8615 · HD 214470 · HIP 111532

6,907 K
temperature
5.08
apparent magnitude
24.37× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
179 years
at light speed from Earth
1.20×
as hot as the Sun
24.37×
the Sun's light output
1.38
absolute magnitude
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31 CepF-type
Sky regionCepheusthis direction
Star11 Cep15 ly
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StarRho¹ Cep32 ly
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To 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.