K-type star · orange

46 Cet

46 Cet is an orange in the constellation Cetus 288 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,249 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 74.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 288 years ago.

288 lybrightness mag 4.90K2III

Also catalogued as HR 412 · HD 8705 · HIP 6670

4,249 K
temperature
4.90
apparent magnitude
74.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
288 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
74.27×
the Sun's light output
0.17
absolute magnitude
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46 CetK-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.