K-type star · orange

32 Cet

32 Cet is an orange in the constellation Cetus 387 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,674 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.76× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 387 years ago.

387 lybrightness mag 6.40K0III

Also catalogued as HR 346 · HD 6976 · HIP 5485

4,674 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
33.76× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
387 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
33.76×
the Sun's light output
1.03
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.