F-type star · yellow-white star

38 Cas

38 Cas is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 94.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,439 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.44× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 95 years ago.

94.5 lybrightness mag 5.82F6V

Also catalogued as HR 427 · HD 9021 · HIP 7078

6,439 K

temperature

5.82

apparent magnitude

3.44× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F6V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

95 years

at light speed from Earth

1.12×

as hot as the Sun

3.44×

the Sun's light output

3.51

absolute magnitude

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38 CasF-type

Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction

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Bright stars in Cassiopeia

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To 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.