A-type star · white star
20 Cnc
20 Cnc is a white star in the constellation Cancer 384 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,362 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.82× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 384 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3284 · HD 70569 · HIP 41117
8,362 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
50.82× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
384 years
at light speed from Earth
1.45×
as hot as the Sun
50.82×
the Sun's light output
0.58
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.