V762 Cassiopeiae is a K-type red supergiant^[3] located about 2,500 light-years away in the Cassiopeia constellation.^[2] Its apparent magnitude is 5.86, which makes it visible to the naked eye.^[2] It is a relatively cool star with an average surface temperature of 3645 K.^[5]

This is an evolved K-type red supergiant star with a spectral type of K0 I.^[3] It has around 16.9 times the Sun's mass, and its age is estimated to be 10 million years.^[4] It radiates 12,470 times the solar luminosity^[3] from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 3645 K.^[5] V762 Cassiopeiae is located 2,480 light-years away, based in a parallax from Gaia DR3, and is moving towards Earth at a velocity of 21.37 km/s.^{[1][lower-alpha 2]}

Some websites claim V762 Cassiopeiae is the "farthest star visible to the naked eye", at a distance of 16,308 light-years.^[6][7] This is inconsistent with parallax measurements from both Hipparcos, which found a parallax of 1.18±0.45 mas, corresponding to a distance of about 2,800 light-years,^[8] and Gaia DR3, which lists a parallax of 1.3148±0.0693 mas, corresponding to a distance of about 2,500 light-years.^{[1][lower-alpha 2]} The websites claiming that V762 Cassiopeiae is the "farthest star visible to the naked eye" also do not cite any references for the distance of 16,308 light-years, making the origin of this value uncertain.