B-type star · blue-white star

HR 326

HR 326 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 603 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,369 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 146× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 603 years ago.

603 lybrightness mag 5.77B8V

Also catalogued as HD 6676 · HIP 5361

10,369 K
temperature
5.77
apparent magnitude
146× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
603 years
at light speed from Earth
1.80×
as hot as the Sun
146×
the Sun's light output
-0.56
absolute magnitude
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HR 326B-type
Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction
StarHR 26049 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Cassiopeia
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.