K-type star · orange

1 Cet

1 Cet is an orange in the constellation Cetus 622 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,561 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 97.54× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 622 years ago.

622 lybrightness mag 6.28K1IIICN...

Also catalogued as HR 9065 · HD 224481 · HIP 118178

4,561 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
97.54× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1IIICN...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
622 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
97.54×
the Sun's light output
-0.12
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cetus

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.