F-type star · yellow-white star
Achird
Achird is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 19.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,019 K, and it shines at 1.28× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 19 years ago.
Also catalogued as Eta Cas · HR 219 · HD 4614 · HIP 3821 · Gliese Gl 34A
6,019 K
temperature
3.46
apparent magnitude
1.28× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G0V SB
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
19 years
at light speed from Earth
1.04×
as hot as the Sun
1.28×
the Sun's light output
4.59
absolute magnitude
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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.