- Stars with a name
- Schedar
Schedar
α Cassiopeiae
Schedar is an orange giant, in the constellation Cassiopeia. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1798.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it never sets: it circles the pole all night, all year.
Bright enough to see even from a city. Apparent magnitude 2.24.
What it’s like
It gives off 542 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface temperature is about 4,100 degrees Celsius.
It is 228.2 light years away: 2159 trillion kilometres.