F-type star · yellow-white star

Caph

Caph is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 54.7 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,989 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 55 years ago.

54.7 lybrightness mag 2.28F2III-IV

Also catalogued as Beta Cas · HR 21 · HD 432 · HIP 746 · Gliese Gl 8

6,989 K
temperature
2.28
apparent magnitude
30.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
55 years
at light speed from Earth
1.21×
as hot as the Sun
30.06×
the Sun's light output
1.16
absolute magnitude
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CaphF-type
Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction
StarHR 2448.7 ly
StarHR 515 ly
StarHR 885316 ly
StarCihstar
StarSchedarstar
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 2.3To 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.