F-type star · yellow-white star
25 Cnc
25 Cnc is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cancer 147 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,635 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.33× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 147 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3299 · HD 71030 · HIP 41319
6,635 K
temperature
6.11
apparent magnitude
6.33× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
147 years
at light speed from Earth
1.15×
as hot as the Sun
6.33×
the Sun's light output
2.85
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.