F-type star · yellow-white star
13 Cet
13 Cet is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 69.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,100 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 69 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 142 · HD 3196 · HIP 2762 · Gliese Gl 23A
6,100 K
temperature
5.20
apparent magnitude
3.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8V...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
69 years
at light speed from Earth
1.06×
as hot as the Sun
3.27×
the Sun's light output
3.56
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.