A-type star · white star
44 Cet
44 Cet is a white star in the constellation Cetus 220 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,902 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.03× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 220 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 401 · HD 8511 · HIP 6539
7,902 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
13.03× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
220 years
at light speed from Earth
1.37×
as hot as the Sun
13.03×
the Sun's light output
2.06
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.