B-type star · blue-white star
Cih
Cih is a blue-white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 549 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,738 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3,407× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 549 years ago.
Also catalogued as Gamma Cas · HR 264 · HD 5394 · HIP 4427
10,738 K
temperature
2.15
apparent magnitude
3,407× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B0IV:evar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
549 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
3,407×
the Sun's light output
-3.98
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.