K-type star · orange

Chi Cas

Chi Cas is an orange in the constellation Cassiopeia 208 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,764 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 208 years ago.

208 lybrightness mag 4.68K0III

Also catalogued as HR 442 · HD 9408 · HIP 7294

4,764 K
temperature
4.68
apparent magnitude
47.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
208 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
47.64×
the Sun's light output
0.66
absolute magnitude
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Chi CasK-type
Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction
StarHR 39117 ly
StarCastula19 ly
StarHR 54029 ly
StarCihstar
StarCaphstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Cassiopeia
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To 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.