F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 9085

HR 9085 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 3,077 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,843 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4,542× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 3,077 years ago.

3,077 lybrightness mag 5.58F0III

Also catalogued as HD 224893 · HIP 124

6,843 K
temperature
5.58
apparent magnitude
4,542× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
3,077 years
at light speed from Earth
1.19×
as hot as the Sun
4,542×
the Sun's light output
-4.29
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To 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.