B-type star · blue-white star
HR 62
HR 62 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 1,121 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,231 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 466× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,121 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 1279 · HIP 1372
11,231 K
temperature
5.86
apparent magnitude
466× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,121 years
at light speed from Earth
1.95×
as hot as the Sun
466×
the Sun's light output
-1.82
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.