F-type star · yellow-white star
14 Cet
14 Cet is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 178 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,654 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 178 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 143 · HD 3229 · HIP 2787
6,654 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
10.88× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
178 years
at light speed from Earth
1.15×
as hot as the Sun
10.88×
the Sun's light output
2.26
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.