F-type star · yellow-white star
24 Cnc
24 Cnc is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cancer 260 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,164 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.79× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 260 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3312 · HD 71152 · HIP 41389
7,164 K
temperature
6.51
apparent magnitude
13.79× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
260 years
at light speed from Earth
1.24×
as hot as the Sun
13.79×
the Sun's light output
2.00
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.