B-type star · blue-white star

6 Cep

6 Cep is a blue-white star in the constellation Cepheus 1,989 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,724 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,719× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,989 years ago.

1,989 lybrightness mag 5.19B3IVe

Also catalogued as HR 8171 · HD 203467 · HIP 105268

10,724 K

temperature

5.19

apparent magnitude

2,719× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3IVe

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,989 years

at light speed from Earth

1.86×

as hot as the Sun

2,719×

the Sun's light output

-3.74

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cepheus

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.