G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
6 Cas
6 Cas is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cassiopeia. Its surface is about 5,706 K, and it shines at 58,613,816× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 5.43A3Ia comp
Also catalogued as HR 9018 · HD 223385 · HIP 117447
5,706 K
temperature
5.43
apparent magnitude
58,613,816× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3Ia comp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
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at light speed from Earth
0.99×
as hot as the Sun
58,613,816×
the Sun's light output
-14.57
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.