Mirfak
The brightest star in Perseus, a yellow-white supergiant inside a loose cluster of young stars.
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What it is
- Brightness
- Magnitude 1.79, the 36th brightest star in the night sky
- Distance
- 506 light years
- Kind of star
- Yellow-white supergiant, spectral type F5 Ib
- Light it gives out
- About 4,000 times the Sun’s, in visible light
- Constellation
- Perseus, where it is α Persei
- Catalogue number
- HIP 15863
Figures from HYG database 4.1 (Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese catalogues), CC BY-SA 4.0. All sources