F-type star · yellow-white star
Phi² Cet
Phi² Cet is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 51.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,326 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 51 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 235 · HD 4813 · HIP 3909 · Gliese Gl 37
6,326 K
temperature
5.17
apparent magnitude
1.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
51 years
at light speed from Earth
1.10×
as hot as the Sun
1.85×
the Sun's light output
4.18
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.