K-type star · orange

HR 743

256 lybrightness mag 5.17G8III

Also catalogued as HD 15920 · HIP 12273

5,007 K

temperature

5.17

apparent magnitude

45.79× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

256 years

at light speed from Earth

0.87×

as hot as the Sun

45.79×

the Sun's light output

0.70

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 743K-type

Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction

Nearest stars

Nushagak →13 ly apart
HR 961 →27 ly apart
HR 381 →28 ly apart
42 Cas →31 ly apart
HD 19439 →38 ly apart
HR 567 →40 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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To 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.