K-type star · orange

Schedar

228 lybrightness mag 2.24K0II-IIIvar

Also catalogued as 18Alp Cas · HR 168 · HD 3712 · HIP 3179

4,368 K

temperature

2.24

apparent magnitude

542× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K0II-IIIvar

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

228 years

at light speed from Earth

0.76×

as hot as the Sun

542×

the Sun's light output

-1.99

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

SchedarK-type

Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 238 →22 ly apart
HR 9059 →25 ly apart
Castula →31 ly apart
39Chi Cas →35 ly apart
HR 9020 →38 ly apart
HR 540 →41 ly apart

Bright stars in Cassiopeia

Cih →mag 2.1
Caph →mag 2.3
Ruchbah →mag 2.7
Segin →mag 3.4
Achird →mag 3.5
Fulu →mag 3.7
50 Cas →mag 4.0
15Kap Cas →mag 4.2

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.2To 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.