K-type star · orange

Phi³ Cet

Phi³ Cet is an orange in the constellation Cetus 551 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,786 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 180× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 551 years ago.

551 lybrightness mag 5.35K4III

Also catalogued as HR 267 · HD 5437 · HIP 4371

3,786 K
temperature
5.35
apparent magnitude
180× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
551 years
at light speed from Earth
0.66×
as hot as the Sun
180×
the Sun's light output
-0.79
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To 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.