★ Star Beta Cassiopeiae | Nearby stars catalogue

Yellow giant Beta Cassiopeiae is located 54.7 light years away from the Sun. It is a single star of spectral class F2III, that has 191 of solar mass. For now, there are no known exoplanets in this system.

Beta Cassiopeiae

Yellow giant (spectral class F2III)

Mass: 1.91 M Sun

Size: 3.43 R Sun

Temperature: 7079 K | 1.23 T Sun

Age: 1.15 billions years | 0.25 Sun

Luminosity: 27.3 L Sun

Apparent magnitude (V): 2.27

(No known exoplanets yet)

Photometry

K
2.1

H
1.6

J
1.2

Grp
0.8

I
0.8

G
0.6

V
0.5

Gbp
0.5

B
0.4

U
0.3

More about Beta Cassiopeiae

      Nearby star Beta Cassiopeiae can be found in northern celestial hemisphere, and it is possible to see it with naked eye. The star is observable also from Northern America, Europe and Asia.  Beta Cassiopeiae is about 3 times bigger than the Sun and temperature in its outer envelope is around 7079 K (6806 °C), which is about 123 % of Suns temperature.

Other designations of this star
Caph, Chaph, Kaff, Al Sanam al Nakah,[ 11 Cas, Gl 8, Gliese 8, HR 21, BD+58°3, HD 432, LHS 1027, GCTP 16.00, SAO 21133, FK5 2, HIP 746, GC 147, ADS 107, CCDM J00092+5909

External sources

Sources

Simbad database (* bet Cas)

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