G-type star · yellow, like our Sun

13 Cep

13 Cep is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cepheus. Its surface is about 5,760 K, and it shines at 44,055,486× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.

brightness mag 5.74B8Ibvar

Also catalogued as HR 8371 · HD 208501 · HIP 108165

5,760 K
temperature
5.74
apparent magnitude
44,055,486× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8Ibvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
at light speed from Earth
1.00×
as hot as the Sun
44,055,486×
the Sun's light output
-14.26
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cepheus

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.