K-type star · orange

Phi⁴ Cet

Phi⁴ Cet is an orange in the constellation Cetus 320 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,869 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 320 years ago.

320 lybrightness mag 5.62G7III

Also catalogued as HR 279 · HD 5722 · HIP 4587

4,869 K
temperature
5.62
apparent magnitude
47.29× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
320 years
at light speed from Earth
0.84×
as hot as the Sun
47.29×
the Sun's light output
0.66
absolute magnitude
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Phi⁴ CetK-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To 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.