B-type star · blue-white star

32 Cas

32 Cas is a blue-white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 388 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,122 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 73.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 388 years ago.

388 lybrightness mag 5.57B9IV

Also catalogued as HR 345 · HD 6972 · HIP 5589

11,122 K
temperature
5.57
apparent magnitude
73.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
388 years
at light speed from Earth
1.93×
as hot as the Sun
73.05×
the Sun's light output
0.19
absolute magnitude
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32 CasB-type
Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction
StarHR 34217 ly
Star43 Cas29 ly
StarHR 27340 ly
StarCihstar
StarSchedarstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Cassiopeia
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cassiopeia

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.