B-type star · blue-white star

HR 342

405 lybrightness mag 5.56B9.5V

Also catalogued as HD 6960 · HIP 5566

10,824 K

temperature

5.56

apparent magnitude

80.02× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

405 years

at light speed from Earth

1.88×

as hot as the Sun

80.02×

the Sun's light output

0.09

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 342B-type

Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction

Nearest stars

32 Cas →17 ly apart
Segin →35 ly apart
43 Cas →38 ly apart
HR 273 →57 ly apart
HD 1142 →60 ly apart
HR 278 →66 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 5.6To 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.