K-type star · orange
46 Cnc
46 Cnc is an orange in the constellation Cancer 591 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,904 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 102× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 591 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3464 · HD 74485 · HIP 42954
4,904 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
102× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
591 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
102×
the Sun's light output
-0.17
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.