B-type star · blue-white star

28 Cet

28 Cet is a blue-white star in the constellation Cetus 590 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,014 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 167× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 590 years ago.

590 lybrightness mag 5.58A1V

Also catalogued as HR 317 · HD 6530 · HIP 5164

10,014 K
temperature
5.58
apparent magnitude
167× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
590 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
167×
the Sun's light output
-0.71
absolute magnitude
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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.