K-type star · orange
3 Cnc
3 Cnc is an orange in the constellation Cancer 794 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,091 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 297× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 794 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3128 · HD 65759 · HIP 39177
4,091 K
temperature
5.60
apparent magnitude
297× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
794 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
297×
the Sun's light output
-1.33
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.