A-type star · white star
HR 579
HR 579 is a white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 387 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,469 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.69× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 387 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 12173 · HIP 9586
8,469 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
43.69× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
387 years
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
43.69×
the Sun's light output
0.75
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.