B-type star · blue-white star

8Sig Cas

brightness mag 4.88B1V...

Also catalogued as HR 9071 · HD 224572 · HIP 118243

11,107 K

temperature

4.88

apparent magnitude

97,274,722× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1V...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

–

at light speed from Earth

1.92×

as hot as the Sun

97,274,722×

the Sun's light output

-15.12

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

8Sig CasB-type

Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction

StarHR 90529,800 ly

Star7Rho Cas11,000 ly

Star9 Cas37,000 ly

StarCihstar

StarSchedarstar

Nearest stars

HR 9052 →9,800 ly apart
7Rho Cas →11,000 ly apart
9 Cas →37,000 ly apart
6 Cas →37,000 ly apart
HR 146 →38,000 ly apart
HR 8752 →47,000 ly apart

Bright stars in Cassiopeia

Cih →mag 2.1
Schedar →mag 2.2
Caph →mag 2.3
Ruchbah →mag 2.7
Segin →mag 3.4
Achird →mag 3.5
Fulu →mag 3.7
50 Cas →mag 4.0

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.9To 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.