B-type star · blue-white star
37 Cnc
37 Cnc is a blue-white star in the constellation Cancer 365 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,252 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 26.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 365 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3412 · HD 73316 · HIP 42353
10,252 K
temperature
6.54
apparent magnitude
26.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
365 years
at light speed from Earth
1.78×
as hot as the Sun
26.45×
the Sun's light output
1.29
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.