K-type star · orange
12 Cet
12 Cet is an orange in the constellation Cetus 567 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,727 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 136× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 567 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 117 · HD 2637 · HIP 2353
3,727 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
136× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
567 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
136×
the Sun's light output
-0.48
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.