G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
18 Cet
18 Cet is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Cetus 101 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,956 K, and it shines at 2.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 101 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 203 · HD 4307 · HIP 3559 · Gliese GJ 1020
5,956 K
temperature
6.15
apparent magnitude
2.90× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
101 years
at light speed from Earth
1.03×
as hot as the Sun
2.90×
the Sun's light output
3.69
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.