A-type star · white star

HR 579

387 lybrightness mag 6.12A5III

Also catalogued as HD 12173 · HIP 9586

8,469 K

temperature

6.12

apparent magnitude

43.69× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

387 years

at light speed from Earth

1.47×

as hot as the Sun

43.69×

the Sun's light output

0.75

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 579A-type

Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction

Nearest stars

49 Cas →20 ly apart
HR 375 →41 ly apart
43 Cas →41 ly apart
HR 278 →47 ly apart
HR 791 →55 ly apart
Gam Cam →61 ly apart

Bright stars in Cassiopeia

Cih →mag 2.1
Schedar →mag 2.2
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

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To 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.