K-type star · orange
10 Cet
10 Cet is an orange in the constellation Cetus 451 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,015 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 57.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 451 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 101 · HD 2273 · HIP 2100
5,015 K
temperature
6.16
apparent magnitude
57.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
451 years
at light speed from Earth
0.87×
as hot as the Sun
57.23×
the Sun's light output
0.46
absolute magnitude
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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.