F-type star · yellow-white star
Chi Cnc
Chi Cnc is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cancer 59.6 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,448 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2.58× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 60 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3262 · HD 69897 · HIP 40843 · Gliese Gl 303
6,448 K
temperature
5.13
apparent magnitude
2.58× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
60 years
at light speed from Earth
1.12×
as hot as the Sun
2.58×
the Sun's light output
3.82
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.