K-type star · orange
Upsilon² Cnc
Upsilon² Cnc is an orange in the constellation Cancer 556 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,667 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 72.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 556 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3369 · HD 72324 · HIP 41940
4,667 K
temperature
6.35
apparent magnitude
72.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
556 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
72.91×
the Sun's light output
0.19
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.