B-type star · blue-white star

HR 561

730 lybrightness mag 6.02B5III

Also catalogued as HD 11857 · HIP 9220

10,681 K

temperature

6.02

apparent magnitude

170× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

730 years

at light speed from Earth

1.85×

as hot as the Sun

170×

the Sun's light output

-0.73

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 561B-type

Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction

Nearest stars

55 Cas →67 ly apart
46Ome Cas →92 ly apart
4 Per →92 ly apart
HR 354 →97 ly apart
HR 470 →110 ly apart
7 Per →110 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.