B-type star · blue-white star

HR 96

HR 96 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 516 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,882 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 112× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 516 years ago.

516 lybrightness mag 5.72B9IV

Also catalogued as HD 2054 · HIP 1982

10,882 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
112× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
516 years
at light speed from Earth
1.89×
as hot as the Sun
112×
the Sun's light output
-0.28
absolute magnitude
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HR 96B-type
Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction
StarHR 14427 ly
StarHD 22274862 ly
StarHR 900063 ly
StarSchedarstar
StarCaphstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Cassiopeia
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.