F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 292

HR 292 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 2,001 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,335 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,405× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,001 years ago.

2,001 lybrightness mag 5.92F0II

Also catalogued as HD 6130 · HIP 4962

6,335 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
1,405× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,001 years
at light speed from Earth
1.10×
as hot as the Sun
1,405×
the Sun's light output
-3.02
absolute magnitude
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HR 292F-type
Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.