F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 9097

HR 9097 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 2,490 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,264 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,620× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 2,490 years ago.

2,490 lybrightness mag 6.24B3Ia

Also catalogued as HD 225094 · HIP 274

7,264 K

temperature

6.24

apparent magnitude

1,620× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3Ia

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,490 years

at light speed from Earth

1.26×

as hot as the Sun

1,620×

the Sun's light output

-3.17

absolute magnitude

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HR 9097F-type

Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction

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Bright stars in Cassiopeia

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.