K-type star · orange

Phi¹ Cet

Phi¹ Cet is an orange in the constellation Cetus 234 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,748 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 234 years ago.

234 lybrightness mag 4.77K0IIIvar

Also catalogued as HR 194 · HD 4188 · HIP 3455

4,748 K
temperature
4.77
apparent magnitude
55.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
234 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
55.26×
the Sun's light output
0.49
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cetus

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.