A-type star · white star

Zeta Per

Zeta Per is a white star in the constellation Perseus 752 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,651 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3,382× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 752 years ago.

752 lybrightness mag 2.84B1Ib

Also catalogued as HR 1203 · HD 24398 · HIP 18246

7,651 K

temperature

2.84

apparent magnitude

3,382× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1Ib

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

752 years

at light speed from Earth

1.33×

as hot as the Sun

3,382×

the Sun's light output

-3.97

absolute magnitude

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Zeta PerA-type

Sky regionPerseusthis direction

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Bright stars in Perseus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Perseus

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.