G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 829
HR 829 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cassiopeia 1,289 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,602 K, and it shines at 572× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,289 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 17463 · HIP 13367
5,602 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
572× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5:Ib-II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,289 years
at light speed from Earth
0.97×
as hot as the Sun
572×
the Sun's light output
-2.04
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.