K-type star · orange
Eta Cet
Eta Cet is an orange in the constellation Cetus 124 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,387 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 124 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 334 · HD 6805 · HIP 5364 · Gliese GJ 3075
4,387 K
temperature
3.46
apparent magnitude
51.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
124 years
at light speed from Earth
0.76×
as hot as the Sun
51.95×
the Sun's light output
0.56
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.