K-type star · orange
Rho Cas
Rho Cas is an orange in the constellation Cassiopeia. Its surface is about 4,328 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 136,772,883× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 4.51F8Iavar
Also catalogued as HR 9045 · HD 224014 · HIP 117863
4,328 K
temperature
4.51
apparent magnitude
136,772,883× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8Iavar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
136,772,883×
the Sun's light output
-15.49
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.