A-type star · white star
29 Cnc
29 Cnc is a white star in the constellation Cancer 343 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,155 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 343 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3333 · HD 71555 · HIP 41578
8,155 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
40.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
343 years
at light speed from Earth
1.41×
as hot as the Sun
40.59×
the Sun's light output
0.83
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.