A-type star · white star
36 Cnc
36 Cnc is a white star in the constellation Cancer 488 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,195 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 83.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 488 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3406 · HD 73143 · HIP 42265
9,195 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
83.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
488 years
at light speed from Earth
1.59×
as hot as the Sun
83.64×
the Sun's light output
0.04
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.