Chi Cassiopeiae

Chi Cassiopeiae is a solitary, yellow-hued star in the constellation Cassiopeia. Its name is a Bayer designation that is Latinized from χ Cassiopeiae, and is abbreviated Chi Cas or χ Cas. This star is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.7. Based upon an annual parallax shift of as seen from Earth, this system is located approximately from the Sun. At that distance, the visual magnitude is diminished by an extinction of 0.18 due to interstellar dust.
With a stellar classification of G9 IIIb, it has the spectrum of an evolved, G-type giant star. It is a red clump star that it is generating energy through helium fusion at its core, with an estimated age of a billion years. The star has about double the mass of the Sun and has expanded to 10.3 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 67.6 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,746 K.